What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance?
ANATOLE FRANCEMan is summed up in Art. All the rest is moonshine.
More Anatole France Quotes
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We have never heard the devil’s side of the story, God wrote all the book.
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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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If we don’t change, we don’t grow. If we don’t grow, we aren’t really living.
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The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.
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Whatever one may do, one is always alone in the world.
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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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It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
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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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The history books which contain no lies are extremely tedious.
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Dictionary: The universe in alphabetical order.
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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.
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Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.
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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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Without lies, humanity would perish of despair and boredom
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To accomplish great things we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
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