105 ordspråk av Anatole France
Anatole France
Anatole France föddes den April 16th 1844 och dog den 12 October 1924 - member of the French Academy and Nobel Prize for Literature in 1921.
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 Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe. |
| 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. |
| We do not know what to do with this short life, yet we want another which will be eternal. |
| We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent |
| We live too much in books and not enough in nature, and we are very much like the simpleton of a Pliny the Younger, who went on studying a Greek author while before his eyes Vesuvius was overwhelming five cities beneath the ashes |
| We reproach people for talking about themselves but it is the subject they treat best |
| We reproach people for talking about themselves but it is the subject they treat best |
| 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 frightens us most in a madman is his sane conversation. |
| When a thing has been said and well said, have no scruple; take it and copy it |
| Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom |
| 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. |
| You become a good writer just as you become a good joiner: by planing down your sentences |
| You become a good writer just as you become a good joiner: by planing down your sentences |
| You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving. |
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