It is good to collect things, but it is better to go on walks.
ANATOLE FRANCEIf we don’t change, we don’t grow. If we don’t grow, we aren’t really living.
More Anatole France Quotes
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It is not customary to love what one has
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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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To accomplish great things we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
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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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When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
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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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It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.
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Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.
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I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
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A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
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The history books which contain no lies are extremely tedious.
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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 average man, who does not know what to do with his life, wants another one which will last forever.
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Whatever one may do, one is always alone in the world.
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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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