But I deny that He created the world; at the most He organised but an inferior part of it, and all that He touched bears the mark of His rough and unforeseeing touch.
ANATOLE FRANCEWe have never heard the devil’s side of the story, God wrote all the book.
More Anatole France Quotes
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The history books which contain no lies are extremely tedious.
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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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In art as in love, instinct is enough.
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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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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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When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
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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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If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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Man is summed up in Art. All the rest is moonshine.
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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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To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
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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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Our passions are ourselves.
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A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
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I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
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