In art as in love, instinct is enough.
ANATOLE FRANCETime deals gently only with those who take it gently.
More Anatole France Quotes
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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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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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The average man, who does not know what to do with his life, wants another one which will last forever.
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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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If we don’t change, we don’t grow. If we don’t grow, we aren’t really living.
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All ought to be common among friends.
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Of all sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.
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The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.
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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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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 summed up in Art. All the rest is moonshine.
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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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Without lies, humanity would perish of despair and boredom
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Suffering — how divine it is, how misunderstood! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.
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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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