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Anatole France Quotes: 15

In art as in love, instinct is enough.
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.
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.
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
Until one has loved an animal, a part of one's soul remains unawakened.
Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have lent me.
To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.
We have never heard the devil's side of the story, God wrote all the book.
It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
To accomplish great things, we must not only act but also dream, not only plan, but also believe!
Time deals gently only with those who take it gently.
The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard
The average man, who does not know what to do with his life, wants another one which will last forever.
The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.
It is possible that these millions of suns, along with thousands of millions more we cannot see, make up altogether but a globule of blood or lymph in the veins of an animal, of a minute insect, hatched in a world of whose vastness we can frame no conception, but which nevertheless would itself, in proportion to some other world, be no more than a speck of dust.
The Garden of Epicurus