French - Novelist | April 16, 1844 - October 12, 1924
We do not know what to do with this short life, yet we want another which will be eternal.
Anatole France
LifeShortKnowWantWillEternal
History books that contain no lies are extremely dull.
HistoryBooksLiesDullContain
Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have left me.
MeLibraryNeverLeftOnlyBooks
Devout believers are safeguarded in a high degree against the risk of certain neurotic illnesses; their acceptance of the universal neurosis spares them the task of constructing a personal one.
AcceptancePersonalRiskTaskHigh
The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.
NobodyBooksEverybodyThoseAdmires
Religion has done love a great service by making it a sin.
LoveGreatServiceReligionSin
One thing above all gives charm to men's thoughts, and this is unrest. A mind that is not uneasy irritates and bores me.
MenMindMeThoughtsCharmAbove
War will disappear only when men shall take no part whatever in violence and shall be ready to suffer every persecution that their abstention will bring them. It is the only way to abolish war.
MenWarViolenceReadyWillWay
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