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Anatole France: top 100 quotes
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The Future (n.) is a convenient place for dreams.
The Future (n.) is hidden even from those who make it.
The Future (n.) is in the present, but future is also in the past. We create our future, so if it is bad, it`s only our fault.
Imagination (n.) is everything, to know is nothing at all.
Being's (n.) very essence is one's own imperfections, imperfections to which one must cling.
The Critic (n.) is he who relates the adventures of his soul among masterpieces.
A Critic (n.) describes his adventures among masterpieces.
Mathematics (n.) is to be distrusted, for despite how sublime and perfect it is, it is a machine of such delicacy it can only work in vacuo, and one grain of sand in the wheels is enough to put everything out of gear.
Mathematics (n.) is vitally important — People who don't count won't count.
Chastity (n.) is the strangest of all sexual abberations.
Love (n.) is a science where great erudition and great application are needed.
Love (n.) is learned by loving just as one learns to speak by speaking, to run by running, and to study by studying.
Love (n.) is like any other energies of man in that its power weakens and gradually becomes lost with age.
Love (n.) Christianity did a great deal for by making a sin of it.
Love (n.) is a thing in which, as in art, instinct is enough.
Love (n.) is a thing which religion, by making it a sin, has done a great service