Anatole France , born Anatole François Thibault, was a French author. He was born in Paris, and died in Tours, Indre-et-Loire.
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“Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom”
Anatole France
“If it were absolutely necessary to choose, I would rather be guilty of an immoral act than of a cruel one”
“The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.”
“When a thing has been said and well said, have no scruple; take it and copy it”
“The good critic is he who relates the adventures of his soul among masterpieces”
“Innocence most often is a good fortune and not a virtue.”
“Without the utopians of other times, men would still live in caves, miserable and naked;...utopia is the principle of all progress, adn the essay into a better world.”
“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!”
“It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.”
“All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.”