Without lies, humanity would perish of despair and boredom
ANATOLE FRANCEWithout lies, humanity would perish of despair and boredom
ANATOLE FRANCEMan is summed up in Art. All the rest is moonshine.
ANATOLE FRANCEIf 50 million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
ANATOLE FRANCESuffering — 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.
ANATOLE FRANCEWe chase dreams and embrace shadows.
ANATOLE FRANCEWhat can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance?
ANATOLE FRANCEWe do not know what to do with this short life, yet we yearn for another that will be eternal.
ANATOLE FRANCEAll 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.
ANATOLE FRANCEAs 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 FRANCETime deals gently only with those who take it gently.
ANATOLE FRANCEIt is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.
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 FRANCEThe books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.
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 FRANCEWe have never heard the devil’s side of the story, God wrote all the book.
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.
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