Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.
ANATOLE FRANCEWhatever one may do, one is always alone in the world.
More Anatole France Quotes
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Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.
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We should adopt his principles and govern men as they are and not as what we’d like them to be.
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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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The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.
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The average man, who does not know what to do with his life, wants another one which will last forever.
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It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
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Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened.
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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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Man is summed up in Art. All the rest is moonshine.
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Whatever one may do, one is always alone in the world.
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All changes, even the most longed for, must have their melancholy
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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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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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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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We chase dreams and embrace shadows.
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