I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
ANATOLE FRANCEWe chase dreams and embrace shadows.
More Anatole France Quotes
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In art as in love, instinct is enough.
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Time deals gently only with those who take it gently.
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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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Determination. To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream. Not only plan, but also believe.
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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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Yet, every now and then, there would pass a young girl, slender, fair and desirable, arousing in young men a not ignoble desire to possess her, and stirring in old men regrets for ecstasy not seized and now forever past.
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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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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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Man is summed up in Art. All the rest is moonshine.
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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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The wonder is, not that the field of stars is so vast, but that man has measured it.
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A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
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It is not customary to love what one has
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Without lies, humanity would perish of despair and boredom
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