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.
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.
More Anatole France Quotes
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As 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.
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The history books which contain no lies are extremely tedious.
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It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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Our passions are ourselves.
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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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If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.
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It is not customary to love what one has
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The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.
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Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.
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Without lies, humanity would perish of despair and boredom
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To accomplish great things we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
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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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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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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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