Anatole France Quotes about Literature

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Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.

Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.

Anatole France

God, Pseudonyms, Literature

The truth is that life is delicious, horrible, charming, frightful, sweet, bitter, and that is everything.

Anatole France

Life, Sweet, Literature

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What frightens us most in a madman is his sane conversation.

Anatole France

Literature, Conversation, Madmen

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Of all the sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.

Anatole France

Aberration, Literature, Chastity

Silence is the wit of fools.

Anatole France

Silence, Literature, Fool

I thank fate for having made me born poor. Poverty taught me the true value of the gifts useful to life.

Anatole France

Fate, Literature, Poverty

Innocence most often is a good fortune and not a virtue.

Anatole France

Often Is, Literature, Innocence

"The Gods Are Thirsty". Book by Anatole France, 1912.

Of all the ways of defining man, the worst is the one which makes him out to be a rational animal.

Anatole France

Animal, Men, Literature

"Le Petit Pierre". Book by Anatole France, 1918.

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.

Anatole France

Light, Giving, Literature

Anatole France (1924). “On life & letters”