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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.

Anatole France

All the good writers of confessions, from Augustine onwards, are men who are still a little in love with their sins.
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Goodness Love Man Sin Writing
Man is a rational animal. He can think up a reason for anything he wants to believe.
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Animal Believe Himself Logic Man Thinking
We chase dreams and embrace shadows.
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Deep Dreams One Liner
All ought to be common among friends.
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Fame Friendship
It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.
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Act Human Nature Thinking Wisdom
Whatever one may do, one is always alone in the world.
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Alone Oneself World
Determination. To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream. Not only plan, but also believe.
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Accomplishment Act Believe Determination Dream Planning
Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.
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Establishment Existence Man Nature
We do not know what to do with this short life, yet we yearn for another that will be eternal.
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Deep Forever Life Mortal
Suffering — how divine it is, how misunderstood! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.
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Courage Divine Goodness Life Suffering Value Virtue
As to the kind of truth one finds in books, it is a truth that enables us sometimes to discern what things are not, without ever enabling us to discover what they are.
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Discover Kind Truth
To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.
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Accomplishment Act Dream Greatness
To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
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Death Price Willing
It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
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Act Ideas Live People
Of all sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.
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Sex Strange
Time deals gently only with those who take it gently.
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Deal Time

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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