A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
ANATOLE FRANCEUntil one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened.
More Anatole France Quotes
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It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.
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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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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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Whatever one may do, one is always alone in the world.
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The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.
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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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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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We chase dreams and embrace shadows.
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We have never heard the devil’s side of the story, God wrote all the book.
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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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Stupidity is far more dangerous than evil, for evil takes a break from time to time, stupidity does not.
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Man is summed up in Art. All the rest is moonshine.
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Armenia 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.
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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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