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That which has been believed by everyone, always and everywhere, has every chance of being false.

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Serious-minded people have few ideas. People with ideas are never serious.

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Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business.

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The purpose of psychology is to give us a completely different idea of the things we know best.

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A man is a poet if difficulties inherent in his art provide him with ideas; he is not a poet if they deprive him of ideas.

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We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.

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The Nautilus was piercing the water with its sharp spur, after having accomplished nearly ten thousand leagues in three months and a half, a distance greater than the great circle of the earth. Where were we going now, and what was reserved for the future?

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Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.

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We were alone. Where, I could not say, hardly imagine. All was black, and such a dense black that, after some minutes, my eyes had not been able to discern even the faintest glimmer.

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The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert, where man is never lonely, for he feels life stirring on all sides.

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On the morrow the horizon was covered with clouds- a thick and impenetrable curtain between earth and sky, which unhappily extended as far as the Rocky Mountains. It was a fatality!

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I believe cats to be spirits come to earth. A cat, I am sure, could walk on a cloud without coming through.

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Liberty is worth paying for.

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Because we believe ourselves to be better parents than our parents, we expect to produce better children than they produced.

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I could be such a wonderful wife to another wife's husband.

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Superstition is foolish, childish, primitive and irrational - but how much does it cost you to knock on wood?

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Lust is what keeps you wanting to do it even when you have no desire to be with each other. Love is what makes you want to be with each other even when you have no desire to do it.

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Strength is the capacity to break a chocolate bar into four pieces with your bare hands - and then eat just one of the pieces.

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We will have to give up the hope that, if we try hard, we somehow will always do right by our children. The connection is imperfect. We will sometimes do wrong.

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When he is late for dinner and I know he must be either having an affair or lying dead in the street, I always hope he's dead.

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