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“Until one has loved an animal, a part of one's soul remains unawakened.”
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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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“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.”
― The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard
― The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard
“To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.”
― Works of Anatole France
― Works of Anatole France
“We have never heard the devil's side of the story, God wrote all the book.”
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“To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.”
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“The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal their bread.”
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“If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.”
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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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“In art as in love, instinct is enough. ”
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“If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.”
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“It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.”
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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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“Stupidity is far more dangerous than evil, for evil takes a break from time to time, stupidity does not.”
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“J'ai toujours préféré la folie des passions à la sagesse de l'indifférence.”
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“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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“Of all sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.”
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“It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.”
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“Time deals gently only with those who take it gently.”
― The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard
― The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard
“When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.”
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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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“Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.”
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“I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.”
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“A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.”
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“Nine tenths of education is encouragement.”
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“Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another. ”
― The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard
― The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard
“Awaken people's curiosity. It is enough to open minds, do not overload them. Put there just a spark.”
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“The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.”
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“We chase dreams and embrace shadows.”
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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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