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Anatole France

Anatole France

French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1921)

Lived from: 1844 - 1924

Category: Writers (Contemporary) Country: FlagFrance

Born: 16 april 1844 Died: 12 october 1924

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  • The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.
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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.
    Original: La majestueuse égalité des lois, qui interdit au riche comme au pauvre de coucher sous les ponts, de mendier dans les rues et de voler du pain.
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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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  • There are very honest people who do not think that they have had a bargain unless they have cheated a merchant.
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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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  • To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
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  • To imagine is everything, to know is nothing at all.
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  • Until one has loved an animal a part of one's soul remains unawakened.
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  • Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.
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  • War will disappear only when men shall take no part whatever in violence and shall be ready to suffer every persecution that their abstention will bring them. It is the only way to abolish war.
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  • We do not know what to do with this short life, yet we want another which will be eternal.
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  • We reproach people for talking about themselves; but it is the subject they treat best.
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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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  • What frightens us most in a madman is his sane conversation.
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  • When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
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  • Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.
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  • The truth is that life is delicious, horrible, charming, frightful, sweet, bitter, and that is everything.
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