All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.
ANATOLE FRANCEIn art as in love, instinct is enough.
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The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal their bread.
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Dictionary: The universe in alphabetical order.
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An education isn’t how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It’s being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don’t.
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A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
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To accomplish great things we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
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Science neither cares to please nor to displease. She is inhuman. It is not science but poetry that charms and consoles. And that is why poetry is more necessary than science.
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Of all sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.
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Our passions are ourselves.
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For the majority of people, though they do not know what to do with this life, long for another that shall have no end.
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In art as in love, instinct is enough.
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Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.
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We have never heard the devil’s side of the story, God wrote all the book.
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The wonder is, not that the field of stars is so vast, but that man has measured it.
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It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
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