All Anatole France Quotes
Existence would be intolerable if we were never to dream.
Anatole France
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To imagine is everything, to know is nothing at all.
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Imagination
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To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
Anatole France
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The good critic is he who relates the adventures of his soul among masterpieces.
Anatole France
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An education which does not cultivate the will is an education that depraves the mind.
Anatole France
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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.
Anatole France
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A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Anatole France
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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.
Anatole France
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Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.
Anatole France
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It is well for the heart to be naive and the mind not to be.
Anatole France
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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.
Anatole France
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If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Anatole France
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Of all the sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.
Anatole France
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