A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
ANATOLE FRANCEDetermination. To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream. Not only plan, but also believe.
More Anatole France Quotes
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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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Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.
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Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened.
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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 good to collect things, but it is better to go on walks.
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Of all sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.
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Without lies, humanity would perish of despair and boredom
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If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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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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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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The average man, who does not know what to do with his life, wants another one which will last forever.
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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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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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It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.
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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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