To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.
ANATOLE FRANCETo know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.
ANATOLE FRANCEAll 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 FRANCEThe books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.
ANATOLE FRANCEThe average man, who does not know what to do with his life, wants another one which will last forever.
ANATOLE FRANCETime deals gently only with those who take it gently.
ANATOLE FRANCETo be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
ANATOLE FRANCETo accomplish great things we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
ANATOLE FRANCEAwaken people’s curiosity. It is enough to open minds, do not overload them. Put there just a spark.
ANATOLE FRANCEThe law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.
ANATOLE FRANCEWe have never heard the devil’s side of the story, God wrote all the book.
ANATOLE FRANCEArmenia 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 FRANCEWithout lies, humanity would perish of despair and boredom
ANATOLE FRANCEIt is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
ANATOLE FRANCEThe whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of the mind for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
ANATOLE FRANCEAll ought to be common among friends.
ANATOLE FRANCEAll the good writers of confessions, from Augustine onwards, are men who are still a little in love with their sins.
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