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 FRANCEHe 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.
More Anatole France Quotes
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It is not customary to love what one has
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To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.
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We chase dreams and embrace shadows.
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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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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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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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If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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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 history books which contain no lies are extremely tedious.
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Our passions are ourselves.
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Awaken people’s curiosity. It is enough to open minds, do not overload them. Put there just a spark.
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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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The average man, who does not know what to do with his life, wants another one which will last forever.
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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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In art as in love, instinct is enough.
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