All changes, even the most longed for, must have their melancholy
ANATOLE FRANCEWhat can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance?
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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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Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened.
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To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.
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Of all sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.
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Man is a rational animal. He can think up a reason for anything he wants to believe.
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Man is summed up in Art. All the rest is moonshine.
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If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.
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Without lies, humanity would perish of despair and boredom
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If we don’t change, we don’t grow. If we don’t grow, we aren’t really living.
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The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of the mind for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
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Whatever one may do, one is always alone in the world.
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Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have lent me.
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Determination. To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream. Not only plan, but also believe.
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Yet, every now and then, there would pass a young girl, slender, fair and desirable, arousing in young men a not ignoble desire to possess her, and stirring in old men regrets for ecstasy not seized and now forever past.
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