Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.
ANATOLE FRANCEWe chase dreams and embrace shadows.
More Anatole France Quotes
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People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.
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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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An education isn’t how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It’s being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don’t.
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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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All the good writers of confessions, from Augustine onwards, are men who are still a little in love with their sins.
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Time deals gently only with those who take it gently.
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Man is summed up in Art. All the rest is moonshine.
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If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.
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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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Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened.
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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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Our passions are ourselves.
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All changes, even the most longed for, must have their melancholy
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