Man is summed up in Art. All the rest is moonshine.
ANATOLE FRANCENever lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have lent me.
More Anatole France Quotes
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It is not customary to love what one has
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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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It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
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I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
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We have never heard the devil’s side of the story, God wrote all the book.
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If 50 million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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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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To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.
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It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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Without lies, humanity would perish of despair and boredom
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It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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Man is a rational animal. He can think up a reason for anything he wants to believe.
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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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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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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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