Author: Anatole France

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Until one has loved an animal a part of one's soul remains unawakened.

Until one has loved an animal a part of one's soul remains unawakened.

- Anatole France

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 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!

- Anatole France

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

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

- Anatole France

Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness.

Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness.

- Anatole France

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

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

- Anatole France

It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.

It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.

- Anatole France

Ignorance and error are necessary to life, like bread and water.

Ignorance and error are necessary to life, like bread and water.

- Anatole France

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.

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.

- Anatole France

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

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

- Anatole France

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