It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.
ANATOLE FRANCEWe chase dreams and embrace shadows.
More Anatole France Quotes
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Nine tenths of education is encouragement.
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Man is summed up in Art. All the rest is moonshine.
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It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
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If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.
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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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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 the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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In art as in love, instinct is enough.
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Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened.
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Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.
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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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To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.
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It is not customary to love what one has
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The wonder is, not that the field of stars is so vast, but that man has measured it.
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