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Stupidity is far more dangerous than evil, for evil takes a break from time to time, stupidity does not.

Anatole France

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.
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Change Death Life Ourselves Sadness
Man is summed up in Art. All the rest is moonshine.
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Art Man Moon
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
In art as in love, instinct is enough.
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Art Enough Love
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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Art Mindset Nature Purpose Satisfaction Teaching
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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Book Library Myself People
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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Desire Forever Man Past Regret Young
Dictionary: The universe in alphabetical order.
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Book One Liner
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
Of all sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.
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Sex Strange
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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Commitment Difference Education Memories
Our passions are ourselves.
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One Liner Ourselves Passion
The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.
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Book Reading
What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance?
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Chance Earth Heaven Stupidity Thinking
If we don’t change, we don’t grow. If we don’t grow, we aren’t really living.
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Change Growth Live
It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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Character Man Truth

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