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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“Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.”
Anatole France
“He flattered himself on being a man without any prejudices; and this pretension itself is a very great prejudice”
“The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread”
“Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom”
“If it were absolutely necessary to choose, I would rather be guilty of an immoral act than of a cruel one”
“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.”