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Until one has loved an animal, a part of one's soul remains unawakened.Anatole France
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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.Anatole France
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To accomplish great things, we must not only act but also dream, not only plan, but also believe!Anatole France
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To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.Anatole France
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Time deals gently only with those who take it gently.Anatole France
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It is possible that these millions of suns, along with thousands of millions more we cannot see, make up altogether but a globule of blood or lymph in the veins of an animal, of a minute insect, hatched in a world of whose vastness we can frame no conception, but which nevertheless would itself, in proportion to some other world, be no more than a speck of dust.Anatole France
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It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.Anatole France
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We have never heard the devil's side of the story, God wrote all the book.Anatole France
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The average man, who does not know what to do with his life, wants another one which will last forever.Anatole France
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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 know and what you don't.Anatole France
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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.Anatole France
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The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.Anatole France
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To accomplish great things we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.( From an introductory speech at a session of the Académie Française, December 24, 1896)Anatole France
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We chase dreams and embrace shadows.Anatole France
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It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel. -Anatole France, novelist, essayist, Nobel laureate (1844-1924)Anatole France
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If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.Anatole France
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In art as in love, instinct is enough.Anatole France
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I never go into the country for a change of air and a holiday. I always go instead into the eighteenth century.Anatole France
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Of all sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.Anatole France
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For the majority of people, though they do not know what to do with this life, long for another that shall have no end.Anatole France
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It is good to collect things, but it is better to go on walks.Anatole France
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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.Anatole France
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Suffering – how divine it is, how misunderstood! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.Anatole France
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All writers of confessions from Augustine on down, have always remained a little in love with their sins.Anatole France
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Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.Anatole France
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Nature teaches us to devour each other and gives us the example of all the crimes and all the vices which the social state corrects or conceals. We should love virtue; but it is well to know that this is simply and solely a convenient expedient invented by men in order to live comfortably together. What we call morality is merely a desperate enterprise, a forlorn hope, on the part of our fellow creatures to reverse the order of the universe, which is strife and murder, the blind interplay of hostile forces. She destroys herself, and the more I think of things, the more convinced I am that the universe is mad. Theologians and philosophers, who make God the author of Nature and the architect of the universe, show Him to us as illogical and ill-conditioned. They declare Him benevolent, because they are afraid of Him, but they are forced to admit that His acts are atrocious. They attribute a malignity to him seldom to be found even in mankind. And that is how they get human beings to adore Him. For our miserable race would never lavish worship on just and benevolent deities from which they would have nothing to fear; they would feel only a barren gratitude for their benefits. Without purgatory and hell, your good God would be a mighty poor creature. .Anatole France
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Ignorance is the necessary condition, i do not say of happiness, but of life itself. If we knew everything, we could not endure existence a single hour. The sentiments that make it sweet to us, or at any rate tolerable, spring from a falsehood, and are fed on illusions. If, like God, a man possessed the truth, the sole and perfect truth, and once let it escape out of his hands, the world would be annihilated there and then, and the universe melt away instantly like a shadow. .Anatole France
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Dictionary: The universe in alphabetical order.Anatole France
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I sought out the laws which govern nature, solid or ethereal, and after much pondering I perceived that the Universe had not been formed as its pretended Creator would have us believe; I knew that all that exists, exists of itself and not by the caprice of Iahveh; that the world is itself its own creator and the spirit its own God. Henceforth I despised Iahveh for his imposture, and I hated him because he showed himself to be opposed to all that I found desirable and good: liberty, curiosity, doubt.Anatole France
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If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.Anatole France
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All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind usis a part of ourselves. We must die to one life before we can enter anotherAnatole France
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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.Anatole France
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What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance?Anatole France
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The history books which contain no lies are extremely tediousAnatole France
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Each one dreams the dream of life in his own way. I have dreamed it in my library; and when the hour shall come in which I must leave this world, may it please God to take me from my ladder–from before my shelves of books! ...Anatole France
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We do not know what to do with this short life, yet we want another which will be eternal.Anatole France
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Suffering! ... We owe to it all that is good in us all that gives value to life we owe to it pity we owe to it courage we owe to it all the virtues.Anatole France
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Never lend books - nobody ever returns them the only books I have in my library are those which people have lent me.Anatole France
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I do not know any reading more easy more fascinating more delightful than a catalogue.Anatole France
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Chance is the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.Anatole France
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All changes even the most longed for have their melancholy for what we leave behind us is apart of ourselves we must die to one life before we can enter into another.Anatole France
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One must never lose time in vainly regretting the past or in complaining against the changes which cause us discomfort for change is the essence of life.Anatole France
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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 into another.Anatole France
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And the thing has been said and said well have no scruple. Take it and copy it.Anatole France
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The good critic is he who narrates the adventures of his soul among masterpieces.Anatole France
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The mania of thinking renders one unfit for every activity.Anatole France
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Our passions are ourselves.Anatole France
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I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.Anatole France
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If fifty million people say a foolish thing it is still a foolish thing.Anatole France
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It is not customary to love what one has.Anatole France
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What we call happiness is what we do not know.Anatole France
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Lack of understanding is a great power. Sometimes it enables men to conquer the world.Anatole France
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A writer is rarely so well inspired as when he talks about himself.Anatole France
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The law in its majestic equality forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges to beg in the streets and to steal bread.Anatole France
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Simple style is like white light. It is complex but its complexity is not obvious.Anatole France
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The future is hidden even from those who make it.Anatole France
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It is human nature to think wisely and to act in an absurd fashion.Anatole France
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It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.Anatole France
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To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.Anatole France
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You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.Anatole France
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Nature has no principles. She makes no distinction between good and evil.Anatole France
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The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.Anatole France
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The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.Anatole France
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The poor have to labour in the face of the majestic equality of the law, which forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.Anatole France
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Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness.Anatole France
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Only men who are not interested in women are interested in women's clothes. Men who like women never notice what they wear.Anatole France
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No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free, no one ever will. Chance is the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.Anatole France
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What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster!Anatole France
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Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.Anatole France
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Until one has loved an animal a part of one's soul remains unawakened.Anatole France
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That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future.Anatole France
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The truth is that life is delicious, horrible, charming, frightful, sweet, bitter, and that is everything.Anatole France
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Suffering! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.Anatole France
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To imagine is everything, to know is nothing at all.Anatole France
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In art as in love, instinct is enough.Anatole France
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Nine tenths of education is encouragement.Anatole France
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I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.Anatole France
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Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom.Anatole France