If we don’t change, we don’t grow. If we don’t grow, we aren’t really living.
ANATOLE FRANCEThe law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal their bread.
More Anatole France Quotes
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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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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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Man is summed up in Art. All the rest is moonshine.
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Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened.
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Determination. To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream. Not only plan, but also believe.
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Yet, every now and then, there would pass a young girl, slender, fair and desirable, arousing in young men a not ignoble desire to possess her, and stirring in old men regrets for ecstasy not seized and now forever past.
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What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance?
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To accomplish great things we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
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People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.
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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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For the majority of people, though they do not know what to do with this life, long for another that shall have no end.
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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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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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Of all sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.
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All ought to be common among friends.
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