Of all sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.
ANATOLE FRANCEAwaken people’s curiosity. It is enough to open minds, do not overload them. Put there just a spark.
More Anatole France Quotes
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Dictionary: The universe in alphabetical order.
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The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.
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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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A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
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Yet, every now and then, there would pass a young girl, slender, fair and desirable, arousing in young men a not ignoble desire to possess her, and stirring in old men regrets for ecstasy not seized and now forever past.
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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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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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Nine tenths of education is encouragement.
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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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Armenia 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.
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What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance?
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Man is summed up in Art. All the rest is moonshine.
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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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All ought to be common among friends.
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