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.
ANATOLE FRANCEWhatever one may do, one is always alone in the world.
More Anatole France Quotes
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Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened.
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If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.
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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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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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It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.
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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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If 50 million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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It is not customary to love what one has
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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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I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
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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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We should adopt his principles and govern men as they are and not as what we’d like them to be.
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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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We chase dreams and embrace shadows.
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