Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened.
ANATOLE FRANCEUntil one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened.
More Anatole France Quotes
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Dictionary: The universe in alphabetical order.
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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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Nine tenths of education is encouragement.
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Of all sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.
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Without lies, humanity would perish of despair and boredom
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In art as in love, instinct is enough.
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All ought to be common among friends.
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Man is summed up in Art. All the rest is moonshine.
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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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He would not stoop even to pick up the old manuscript I am going to seek with so much trouble and fatigue. And in truth man is made rather to eat ices than to pore over old texts.
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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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People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.
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We do not know what to do with this short life, yet we yearn for another that will be eternal.
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Yet, every now and then, there would pass a young girl, slender, fair and desirable, arousing in young men a not ignoble desire to possess her, and stirring in old men regrets for ecstasy not seized and now forever past.
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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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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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To accomplish great things we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
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It is not customary to love what one has
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All changes, even the most longed for, must have their melancholy
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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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The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.
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It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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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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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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Whatever one may do, one is always alone in the world.
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The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal their bread.
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