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.
ANATOLE FRANCEArmenia 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.
More Anatole France Quotes
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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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Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened.
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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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Awaken people’s curiosity. It is enough to open minds, do not overload them. Put there just a spark.
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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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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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Man is a rational animal. He can think up a reason for anything he wants to believe.
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Time deals gently only with those who take it gently.
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Whatever one may do, one is always alone in the world.
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We chase dreams and embrace shadows.
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It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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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 not customary to love what one has
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Stupidity is far more dangerous than evil, for evil takes a break from time to time, stupidity does not.
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