Anatole France
Writer
1844-04-16 – 1924-10-12
Anatole France was a French poet, journalist, and novelist who won the 1921 Nobel Prize in Literature.
Quotes by Anatole France
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Of all sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.
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I never go into the country for a change of air and a holiday. I always go instead into the eighteenth century.
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In art as in love, instinct is enough.
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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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It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel. -Anatole France, novelist, essayist, Nobel laureate (1844-1924)
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We chase dreams and embrace shadows.
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The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.
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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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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 know and what you don't.
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We have never heard the devil's side of the story, God wrote all the book.
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It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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It is possible that these millions of suns, along with thousands of millions more we cannot see, make up altogether but a globule of blood or lymph in the veins of an animal, of a minute insect, hatched in a world of whose vastness we can frame no conception, but which nevertheless would itself, in proportion to some other world, be no more than a speck of dust.
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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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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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Until one has loved an animal, a part of one's soul remains unawakened.
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We have never heard the devil's side of the story, God wrote all the book.
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We chase dreams and embrace shadows.
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In art as in love, instinct is enough.
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It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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It is possible that these millions of suns, along with thousands of millions more we cannot see, make up altogether but a globule of blood or lymph in the veins of an animal, of a minute insect, hatched in a world of whose vastness we can frame no conception, but which nevertheless would itself, in proportion to some other world, be no more than a speck of dust.
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