We chase dreams and embrace shadows.
ANATOLE FRANCEWe chase dreams and embrace shadows.
ANATOLE FRANCEOf all sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.
ANATOLE FRANCEArmenia is dying, but it will survive. The little blood that is left is precious blood that will give birth to a heroic generation. A nation that does not want to die, does not die.
ANATOLE FRANCEIt is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
ANATOLE FRANCEAll ought to be common among friends.
ANATOLE FRANCEMan is a rational animal. He can think up a reason for anything he wants to believe.
ANATOLE FRANCEIf we don’t change, we don’t grow. If we don’t grow, we aren’t really living.
ANATOLE FRANCEFor the majority of people, though they do not know what to do with this life, long for another that shall have no end.
ANATOLE FRANCEAwaken people’s curiosity. It is enough to open minds, do not overload them. Put there just a spark.
ANATOLE FRANCETo accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.
ANATOLE FRANCEThe whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of the mind for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
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.
ANATOLE FRANCEWhen a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
ANATOLE FRANCEDictionary: The universe in alphabetical order.
ANATOLE FRANCEDetermination. To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream. Not only plan, but also believe.
ANATOLE FRANCEScience 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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