In art as in love, instinct is enough.
Quote by Anatole France
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In art as in love, instinct is enough.
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Anatole France Quotes
- 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!
- Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom.
- Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness.
- All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves we must die to one life before we can enter another.
- The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
- That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future.
- The truth is that life is delicious, horrible, charming, frightful, sweet, bitter, and that is everything.
- All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves we must die to one life before we can enter another.
- No government ought to be without censors and where the press is free, no one ever will. Chance is the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.
- Suffering! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.
Best Quotes
- They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.
- A mere forty years ago, beach volleyball was just beginning. No bureaucrat would have invented it, and that's what freedom is all about.
- I swear my car won't run unless I'm picking my nose: At least, I'm that superstitious about it, so I don't want to take any chances.
- You can have everything in life you want, if you will just help other people get what they want.
- Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.
- These endless legal challenges that define elections in New York are a joke in this country, and they are the reason why it is so expensive, or one of the reasons, it's so expensive to run here and why so many people decide not to run.
- Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change.
- Put two or three men in positions of conflicting authority. This will force them to work at loggerheads, allowing you to be the ultimate arbiter.
- Surround yourself with people who take their work seriously, but not themselves, those who work hard and play hard.
- I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.