If we don’t change, we don’t grow. If we don’t grow, we aren’t really living.
ANATOLE FRANCEIf the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.
More Anatole France Quotes
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It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
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If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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Man is summed up in Art. All the rest is moonshine.
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It is good to collect things, but it is better to go on walks.
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An education isn’t how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It’s being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don’t.
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We do not know what to do with this short life, yet we yearn for another that will be eternal.
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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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All changes, even the most longed for, must have their melancholy
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It is not customary to love what one has
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Of all sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.
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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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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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Without lies, humanity would perish of despair and boredom
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For the majority of people, though they do not know what to do with this life, long for another that shall have no end.
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In art as in love, instinct is enough.
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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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Determination. To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream. Not only plan, but also believe.
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Dictionary: The universe in alphabetical order.
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If 50 million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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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 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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The history books which contain no lies are extremely tedious.
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Science 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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It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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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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Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened.
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