Anatole France Quotes - Page 4

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• Word-carpentry is like any other kind of carpentry: you must join your sentences smoothly.

  Anatole France

  Kind, Carpentry, Sentences

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• The finest words in the world are only vain sounds if you can't understand them. The best sentence? The shortest.

  Anatole France

  Writing, Sound, World

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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

  War, Men, Suffering

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• Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness.

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  Life, Happiness, Happy

  Anatole France (2016). “The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard”, p.36, Anatole France

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• The dog is a religious animal. In his savage state he worships the moon and the lights that float upon the waters. These are his gods to whom he appeals at night with long-drawn howls.

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  Dog, Religious, Animal

  Anatole France (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Anatole France (Illustrated)”, p.1257, Delphi Classics

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• Chance is the pseudonym God uses when He'd rather not sign His own name.

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  God, Science, Names

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• He flattered himself on being a man without any prejudices; and this pretension itself is a very great prejudice.

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  Men, Justice, Diversity

  Anatole France (2016). “The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard”, p.89, Anatole France

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• We live between two dense clouds; the forgetting of what was and the uncertainty of what will be.

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  Clouds, Two, Forget

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• In order that knowledge be properly digested it must have been swallowed with a good appetite.

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  Order, Appetite, Has Beens

  Anatole France (2016). “The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard”, p.119, Anatole France

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• So long as society is founded on injustice, the function of the laws will be to defend injustice. And the more unjust they are the more respectable they will seem.

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  Law, Long, Unjust

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• Suffering... We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.

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  Depression, Courage, Giving

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

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• A tale without love is like beef without mustard: insipid.

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  Life, Love Is, Beef

  Anatole France (2015). “The Revolt of the Angels: Works by France”, p.28, 谷月社

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• An old philosopher said to Monsieur Coignard, a Reverend Father: 'You are a pig!' To which Abad Coignard answered: 'You flatter me, sir. But unfortunately, I'm only a man.'

  Anatole France

  Father, Animal, Men

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• To imagine is everything, to know is nothing at all.

  Anatole France

  Life, Beautiful, Business

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Good angels are fallible ... they sin every day and fall from Heaven like flies.

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  Fall, Angel, Heaven

  Anatole France (2016). “The Revolt of the Angels”, p.27, Xist Publishing

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• Unhappiness does make people look stupid.

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  Stupid, People, Doe

  Anatole France (2015). “The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard: Works by France”, p.154, 谷月社

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• We reproach people for talking about themselves but it is the subject they treat best.

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  Self, Talking, People

  "The Literary Life". Book by Anatole France, 1888-1892.

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• If it were absolutely necessary to choose, I would rather be guilty of an immoral act than of a cruel one.

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  Deeds, Guilty, Cruelty

  Anatole France (2007). “The Red Lily”, p.15, Wildside Press LLC

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• Religion has done love a great service by making it a sin.

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  Love, Fear, Religion

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

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• People who don't count won't count.

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  Teacher, Math, People

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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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  Inspirational, Thank You, Education

  Anatole France (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Anatole France (Illustrated)”, p.120, Delphi Classics

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• It is not customary to love what one has.

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• Devout believers are safeguarded in a high degree against the risk of certain neurotic illnesses; their acceptance of the universal neurosis spares them the task of constructing a personal one.

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  Inspirational, Acceptance, Risk

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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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  Art, Atheist, Stupid

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• God, conquered, will become Satan; Satan, conquering, will become God. May the fates spare me this terrible lot; I love the Hell which formed my genius. I love the Earth where I have done some good, if it be possible to do any good in this fearful world where beings live but by rapine.

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  Fate, Satanic, Genius

  Anatole France (2015). “The Revolt of the Angels: Works by France”, p.173, 谷月社

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