Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.
ANATOLE FRANCEWe do not know what to do with this short life, yet we yearn for another that will be eternal.
More Anatole France Quotes
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Our passions are ourselves.
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It is not customary to love what one has
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If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.
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Without lies, humanity would perish of despair and boredom
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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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Nine tenths of education is encouragement.
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Of all sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.
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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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We do not know what to do with this short life, yet we yearn for another that will be eternal.
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To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.
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The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.
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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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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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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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Time deals gently only with those who take it gently.
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