The average man, who does not know what to do with his life, wants another one which will last forever.
ANATOLE FRANCETo accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.
More Anatole France Quotes
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It is not customary to love what one has
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Without lies, humanity would perish of despair and boredom
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The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.
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If 50 million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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We have never heard the devil’s side of the story, God wrote all the book.
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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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It is good to collect things, but it is better to go on walks.
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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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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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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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Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.
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As to the kind of truth one finds in books, it is a truth that enables us sometimes to discern what things are not, without ever enabling us to discover what they are.
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All changes, even the most longed for, must have their melancholy
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Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.
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Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened.
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