Anatole France Quotes - Page 2

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• Nine tenths of education is encouragement.

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  Positive, Encouraging, Education

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• Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.

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  God, Pseudonyms, Literature

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• What we call happiness is what we do not know.

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  Knows

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• It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.

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  Motivational, Crazy, Life Changing

  Anatole France (1923). “The Works of Anatole France in English: My friend's book”

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• We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.

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  Women, Silence, Drug

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• Dictionary: The universe in alphabetical order.

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  Order, Dictionary, Alphabetical Order

  Anatole France (1924). “The Works of Anatole France”

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• When a thing has been said and well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.

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  Inspirational, Book, Beer

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• Only men who are not interested in women are interested in women's clothes. Men who like women never notice what they wear.

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  Fashion, Women, Clothes

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• Intelligent women always marry fools

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  Intelligent, Fool, Intelligent Women

  Anatole France (2007). “The Red Lily”, p.42, Wildside Press LLC

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• I cling to my imperfection, as the very essence of my being.

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  Essence, Imperfection, Being Imperfect

  Anatole France (1920). “The garden of Epicurus”

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• Awaken people's curiosity. It is enough to open minds, do not overload them. Put there just a spark.

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  Inspirational, Education, Appreciation

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• 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.

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  Inspirational, Motivational, Dream

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• The future is a convenient place for dreams.

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  Dream, Ignorance, Convenient

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• The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.

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  Funny, Book, Reading

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• Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.

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  Inspirational, Inspiring, Nature

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• Nature, in her indifference, makes no distinction between good and evil.

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  Nature, Evil, Principles

  "The Revolt of the Angels".

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• You think you are dying for your country; you die for the industrialists.

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  Country, Thinking, Dying

  L'Humanité, July 18, 1922.

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• In art as in love, instinct is enough.

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  Love, Life, Art

  "The Garden of Epicurus". Book by Anatole France, 1894.

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• It is by believing in roses that you make them bloom.

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  Believe, Rose

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• Change is the essence of life.

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  Essence, Essence Of Life

  Anatole France (1916). “Pierre Nozière”

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• Of all earthly creatures, humans alone have the power to choose. One must never lose time in vainly regretting the past nor in complaining about the changes which cause us discomfort, for change is the very essence of life.

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  Change, Regret, Life Changing

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• A woman without breasts is like a bed without pillows.

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  Sex, Bed, Breasts

  Anatole France (2015). “The Queen Pedauque: Works by France”, p.95, 谷月社

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• The best sentence? The shortest.

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  Sentences

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• The impotence of God is infinite.

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  God, Religious, Infinite

  Anatole France (1927). “The Works of Anatole France in English”

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• The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.

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  Men, Heartache, Curiosity

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