If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.
ANATOLE FRANCEWhat can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance?
More Anatole France Quotes
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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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Time deals gently only with those who take it gently.
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We have never heard the devil’s side of the story, God wrote all the book.
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In art as in love, instinct is enough.
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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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We chase dreams and embrace shadows.
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It is good to collect things, but it is better to go on walks.
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The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.
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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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Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.
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Nine tenths of education is encouragement.
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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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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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Man is a rational animal. He can think up a reason for anything he wants to 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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