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.
ANATOLE FRANCETo know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.
More Anatole France Quotes
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Dictionary: The universe in alphabetical order.
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People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.
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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.
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All changes, even the most longed for, must have their melancholy
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Of all sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.
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Man is summed up in Art. All the rest is moonshine.
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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 do know and what you don’t.
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We have never heard the devil’s side of the story, God wrote all the book.
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The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.
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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 wonder is, not that the field of stars is so vast, but that man has measured it.
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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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Stupidity is far more dangerous than evil, for evil takes a break from time to time, stupidity does not.
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But 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.
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Determination. To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream. Not only plan, but also believe.
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