To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
ANATOLE FRANCEMan is summed up in Art. All the rest is moonshine.
More Anatole France Quotes
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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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If 50 million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
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It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.
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To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.
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The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.
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We chase dreams and embrace shadows.
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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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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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In art as in love, instinct is enough.
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It is not customary to love what one has
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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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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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We do not know what to do with this short life, yet we yearn for another that will be eternal.
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