It is not customary to love what one has
ANATOLE FRANCEMan is summed up in Art. All the rest is moonshine.
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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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The history books which contain no lies are extremely tedious.
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Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.
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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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It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
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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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If we don’t change, we don’t grow. If we don’t grow, we aren’t really living.
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Our passions are ourselves.
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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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The average man, who does not know what to do with his life, wants another one which will last forever.
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In art as in love, instinct is enough.
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Dictionary: The universe in alphabetical order.
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A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
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Armenia is dying, but it will survive. The little blood that is left is precious blood that will give birth to a heroic generation. A nation that does not want to die, does not die.
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People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.
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