Anatole France
Anatole France
Anatole Francewas a French poet, journalist, and novelist. He was born in Paris, and died in Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire. He was a successful novelist, with several best-sellers. Ironic and skeptical, he was considered in his day the ideal French man of letters. He was a member of the Académie française, and won the 1921 Nobel Prize in Literature "in recognition of his brilliant literary achievements, characterized as they are by a nobility of style, a profound human sympathy, grace, and a true...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth16 April 1844
CountryFrance
The duty of literature is to note what counts, and to light up what is suited to the light. If it ceases to choose and to love, it becomes like a woman who gives herself without preference.
What frightens us most in a madman is his sane conversation.
Of all the sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.
Of all the ways of defining man, the worst is the one which makes him out to be a rational animal.
I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
Silence is the wit of fools.
I thank fate for having made me born poor. Poverty taught me the true value of the gifts useful to life.
Innocence most often is a good fortune and not a virtue.
Nature has no principles. She makes no distinction between good and evil.
The truth is that life is delicious, horrible, charming, frightful, sweet, bitter, and that is everything.
Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.
The absurdity of a religious practice may be clearly demonstrated without lessening the numbers of people who indulge in it
Make love now, by night and by day, in winter and in summer... You are in the world for that and the rest of life is nothing but vanity, illusion, waste. There is only one science, love, only one riches, love, only one policy, love. To make love is all the law, and the prophets.
To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.