Anatole France Quotes
Anatole France Quotes
Until one has loved an animal, a part of one's soul remains unawakened.
1294All 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.
4592 To accomplish great things, we must not only act but also dream, not only plan, but also believe!
2644 It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
1512 Time deals gently only with those who take it gently.
3437 We have never heard the devil's side of the story, God wrote all the book.
2210 The average man, who does not know what to do with his life, wants another one which will last forever.
1066 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.
1079 The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.
3016 Of all sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.
2128 J'ai toujours préféré la folie des passions à la sagesse de l'indifférence.
3478 In art as in love, instinct is enough.
1011 I never go into the country for a change of air and a holiday. I always go instead into the eighteenth century.
4725 To accomplish great things we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
(From an introductory speech at a session of the Académie Française, December 24, 1896)
3460 We chase dreams and embrace shadows.
3175 If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.
1632 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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