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Famous Emile Chartier Quotes
“What is a thousand years? Time is short for one who thinks, endless for one who yearns.”
“There is a future that makes itself and a future we make. The real future is composed of both.”
“Nothing is more dangerous than an idea when it is the only one you have.”
“Two things are aesthetically perfect in the world - the clock and the cat.”
“We prove what we want to prove, and the real difficulty is to know what we want to prove.”
“Every idea I get I have to deny, that's my way of testing it.”
“There are only two kinds of scholars; those who love ideas and those who hate them.”
“The most difficult thing in the world is to say thinkingly what everybody says without thinking.”