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Man is summed up in Art. All the rest is moonshine.

Anatole France

The average man, who does not know what to do with his life, wants another one which will last forever.
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Forever Life Man
Man is summed up in Art. All the rest is moonshine.
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Art Man Moon
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
I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
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Difference Myself Wisdom
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
Of all sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.
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Sex Strange
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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Care Human Necessary Poetry Science
Stupidity is far more dangerous than evil, for evil takes a break from time to time, stupidity does not.
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Break Danger Evil Stupidity Time
In art as in love, instinct is enough.
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Art Enough Love
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
Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.
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Establishment Existence Man Nature
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
It is good to collect things, but it is better to go on walks.
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Collection Goodness Walk
If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.
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Beautiful Leadership Path
Time deals gently only with those who take it gently.
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Deal Time
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

Man is summed up in Art. All the rest is moonshine.

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