Anatole France Quotes
The truth is that life is delicious, horrible, charming, frightful, sweet, bitter, and that is everything. The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards. There are very honest people who do not think that they have had a bargain unless they have cheated a merchant. To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe. To imagine is everything, to know is nothing at all. Until one has loved an animal a part of one's soul remains unawakened. Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe. 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. We do not know what to do with this short life, yet we want another which will be eternal. We reproach people for talking about themselves; but it is the subject they treat best. 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! What frightens us most in a madman is his sane conversation. When a thing has been said and well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it. Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom. You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.
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