The truth is that life is delicious, horrible, charming, frightful, sweet, bitter, and that is everything. — Anatole France Copy Share Image
“Alas!' replied Maître Mouche, 'she must be trained to take her part in the struggle of life. One does not come into… — Anatole France Copy Share Image
Love is like a rose. It looks beautiful on the outside...but there is always pain hidden somewhere. — Anatole France Copy Share Image
“Suffering — how divine it is, how misunderstood! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value… — Anatole France Copy Share Image
It is almost impossible systematically to constitute a natural moral law. Nature has no principles. She furnishes us with no reason to… — Anatole France Copy Share Image
All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must… — Anatole France Copy Share Image
“Bonnard,” I said to myself, “thou knowest how to decipher old texts; but thou dost not know how to read in the… — Anatole France Copy Share Image
“We do not know what to do with this short life, yet we yearn for another that will be eternal.” — Anatole France Copy Share Image
Irony and pity are two good counselors: one, in smiling, makes life pleasurable; the other, who cries, makes it sacred. — Anatole France Copy Share Image
“his life was gently gliding along like a stream that reflects the heaven and fertilizes the fields.” — Anatole France Copy Share Image
I thank fate for having made me born poor. Poverty taught me the true value of the gifts useful to life. — Anatole France Copy Share Image
It was one of the deadliest and heaviest feelings of my life to feel that I was no longer a boy. From… — Anatole France Copy Share Image
For a man’s life would become intolerable, if he knew what was going to happen to him. He would be made aware… — Anatole France Copy Share Image
The average man does not know what to do with this life, yet wants another one which will last forever. — Anatole France Copy Share Image
“The average man, who does not know what to do with his life, wants another one which will last forever.” — Anatole France Copy Share Image
For the majority of people , though they do not know what to do with this life , long for another that… — Anatole France Copy Share Image
“It is possible that these millions of suns, along with thousands of millions more we cannot see, make up altogether but a… — Anatole France Copy Share Image
Dog! When we first met on the highway of life, we came from the two poles of creation.... What can be the… — Anatole France Copy Share Image
Of all earthly creatures, humans alone have the power to choose. One must never lose time in vainly regretting the past nor… — Anatole France Copy Share Image
Make love now, by night and by day, in winter and in summer... You are in the world for that and the… — Anatole France Copy Share Image
Sometimes one day in a difference place gives you more than ten years of a life at home. — Anatole France Copy Share Image
“Ignorance is the necessary condition, i do not say of happiness, but of life itself. If we knew everything, we could not… — Anatole France Copy Share Image
“No, let us not conquer the heavens. It is enough to have the power to do so. War engenders war, and victory defeat. God,… — Anatole France Copy Share Image
It is human nature to think wisely and to act in an absurd fashion. — Anatole France Copy Share Image
“If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.” — Anatole France Copy Share Image
The truth is that life is delicious, horrible, charming, frightful, sweet, bitter, and that is everything. — Anatole France Copy Share Image
“And what, above all, I blame in you is that you have not married in compliance with the law and given children to the… — Anatole France Copy Share Image
An old philosopher said to Monsieur Coignard, a Reverend Father: 'You are a pig!' To which Abad Coignard answered: 'You flatter me, sir. But… — Anatole France Copy Share Image
A people living under the perpetual menace of war and invasion is very easy to govern. It demands no social reform. It does not… — Anatole France Copy Share Image
Until one has loved an animal a part of one's soul remains unawakened. — Anatole France Copy Share Image
