Anatole France

Anatole France

"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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"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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"To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe."
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"Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom."
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"I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom."
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"Nine tenths of education is encouragement."
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"In art as in love, instinct is enough."
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"To imagine is everything, to know is nothing at all."
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"Suffering! 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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"The truth is that life is delicious, horrible, charming, frightful, sweet, bitter, and that is everything."
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"That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future."
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"Until one has loved an animal a part of one's soul remains unawakened."
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"Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign."
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"What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster!"
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"No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free, no one ever will. Chance is the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign."
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"Only men who are not interested in women are interested in women's clothes. Men who like women never notice what they wear."
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"Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness."
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"The poor have to labour in the face of the majestic equality of the law, which 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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"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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"The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards."
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