When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
ANATOLE FRANCEIn art as in love, instinct is enough.
More Anatole France Quotes
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To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.
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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 chase dreams and embrace shadows.
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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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The wonder is, not that the field of stars is so vast, but that man has measured it.
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Our passions are ourselves.
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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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Without lies, humanity would perish of despair and boredom
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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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The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.
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The history books which contain no lies are extremely tedious.
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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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Of all sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.
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It is not customary to love what one has
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People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.
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