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Our passions are ourselves.
Anatole France
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Anatole France
Age: 80 †
Born: 1844
Born: April 16
Died: 1924
Died: October 12
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Jacques François-Anatole Thibault
François-Anatole Thibault
Anatole Thibault
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More quotes by Anatole France
Do not try to satisfy your vanity by teaching a great many things. Awaken people's curiosity. It is enough to open minds do not overload them. Put there just a spark. If there is some good inflammable stuff, it will catch fire.
Anatole France
If it were absolutely necessary to choose, I would rather be guilty of an immoral act than of a cruel one.
Anatole France
Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.
Anatole France
The heart errs like the head its errors are not any the less fatal, and we have more trouble getting free of them because of their sweetness.
Anatole France
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.
Anatole France
I ought not to fear to survive my own people so long as there are men in the world for there are always some whom one can love.
Anatole France
Of all the sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.
Anatole France
Armenia is dying, but it will survive. The little blood that it still has left is precious blood that will give birth to a heroic generation. A nation that does not want to die, does not die.
Anatole France
Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom.
Anatole France
Never lend books, for no one ever returns them
Anatole France
Truth possesses within herself a penetrating force, unknown alike to error and falsehood. I say 'truth' and you understand my meaning. For the beautiful words truth and justice need not to be defined in order to be understood in their true sense.
Anatole France
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream not only plan, but also believe.
Anatole France
To imagine is everything, to know is nothing at all.
Anatole France
Man is a rational animal. He can think up a reason for anything he wants to believe.
Anatole France
The law ... allows rich as well as poor to sleep under bridges.
Anatole France
There is a certain impertinence in allowing oneself to be burned for an opinion.
Anatole France
Without the Utopians of other times, men would still live in caves, miserable and naked. It was Utopians who traced the lines of the first City.....Out of generous dreams come beneficial realities. Utopia is the principle of all progress, and the essay into a better future.
Anatole France
The best sentence? The shortest.
Anatole France
It is good to collect things, but it is better to go on walks.
Anatole France
I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
Anatole France
