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.
ANATOLE FRANCETo know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.
More Anatole France Quotes
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Our passions are ourselves.
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In art as in love, instinct is enough.
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People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.
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It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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It is not customary to love what one has
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The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal their bread.
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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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We have never heard the devil’s side of the story, God wrote all the book.
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The history books which contain no lies are extremely tedious.
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The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.
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If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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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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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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It is good to collect things, but it is better to go on walks.
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To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
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