In art as in love, instinct is enough.
ANATOLE FRANCEPeople who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.
More Anatole France Quotes
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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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The history books which contain no lies are extremely tedious.
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Man is summed up in Art. All the rest is moonshine.
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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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We do not know what to do with this short life, yet we yearn for another that will be eternal.
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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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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 the good writers of confessions, from Augustine onwards, are men who are still a little in love with their sins.
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It is good to collect things, but it is better to go on walks.
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Whatever one may do, one is always alone in the world.
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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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It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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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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When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
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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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