Without lies, humanity would perish of despair and boredom
ANATOLE FRANCEBut I deny that He created the world; at the most He organised but an inferior part of it, and all that He touched bears the mark of His rough and unforeseeing touch.
More Anatole France Quotes
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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.
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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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To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.
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People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.
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It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
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If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.
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Awaken people’s curiosity. It is enough to open minds, do not overload them. Put there just a spark.
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It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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Time deals gently only with those who take it gently.
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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.
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If 50 million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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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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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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We do not know what to do with this short life, yet we yearn for another that will be eternal.
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We have never heard the devil’s side of the story, God wrote all the book.
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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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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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Science neither cares to please nor to displease. She is inhuman. It is not science but poetry that charms and consoles. And that is why poetry is more necessary than science.
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He would not stoop even to pick up the old manuscript I am going to seek with so much trouble and fatigue. And in truth man is made rather to eat ices than to pore over old texts.
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If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
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In art as in love, instinct is enough.
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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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To accomplish great things we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
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