For the majority of people , though they do not know what to do with this life , long for another that shall have no end . — Anatole France

We do not know what to do with this short life, yet we want another which will be eternal. — Anatole France

The average man, who does not know what to do with his life, wants another one which will last forever. — Anatole France

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

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

Within every one of us there lives both a Don Quixote and a Sancho Panza to whom we hearken by turns; and though Sancho most persuades us, it is Don Quixote that we find ourselves obliged to admire… — Anatole France

Sometimes one day in a difference place gives you more than ten years of a life at home. — Anatole France

Suffering–how divine it is, how misunderstood! 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. — Anatole France

Irony and pity are two good counselors: one, in smiling, makes life pleasurable; the other, who cries, makes it sacred. — Anatole France

Change is the essence of life. — Anatole France

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. — Anatole France

One must never lose time in vainly regretting the past or in complaining against the changes which cause us discomfort, for change is the essence of life. — Anatole France

The best sentence? The shortest. — Anatole France

Existence would be intolerable if we were never to dream. — Anatole France

I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom. — Anatole France

You become a good writer just as you become a good joiner: by planing down your sentences. — Anatole France

It is not customary to love what one has. — Anatole France

In art as in love, instinct is enough. — Anatole France

Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness. — Anatole France

A tale without love is like beef without mustard: insipid. — Anatole France

All writers of confessions from Augustine on down, have always remained a little in love with their sins. — Anatole France

We love truly only those we love even in their weakness and their poverty. To forbear, to forgive, to console, that alone is the science of love. — Anatole France

I ought not to fear to survive my own people so long as there are men in the world; for there are always some whom one can love. — Anatole France

There is only one science, love, one riches, love, only one policy, love. To make love is all the law and the prophets. — Anatole France

Great courage was required to engage in such an adventure. But George was in love and Freeheart was faithful. And as the most delightful of poets says ‘What cannot Friendship guided by sweet Love? — Anatole France

The power of love itself weakens and gradually becomes lost with age, like all the other energies of man. — Anatole France

Religion has done love a great service by making it a sin. — Anatole France

Dog! When we first met on the highway of life, we came from the two poles of creation…. What can be the meaning of the obscure love for me that has sprung up in your heart? — Anatole France

Christianity has done a great deal for love by making a sin of it. — Anatole France

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

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. — Anatole France

The adventure of the soul among the masterpieces. — Anatole France

The good critic is he who relates the adventures of his soul among masterpieces. — Anatole France

Until you have loved an animal, part of your soul will have remained dormant. — Anatole France

Until one has loved an animal a part of one’s soul remains unawakened. — Anatole France

Jealousy is a virtue of democracies which preserves them from tyrants. — Anatole France

That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future. — Anatole France

The law in its majesty prohibits rich and poor alike from sleeping under bridges. — Anatole France

The law … allows rich as well as poor to sleep under bridges. — Anatole France

The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread. — Anatole France

In its majestic equality, the law forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, beg in the streets and steal loaves of bread. — Anatole France

The poor have to labour in the face of the majestic equality of the law, which forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread. — Anatole France

What we call strategy is mainly just crossing rivers on bridges and passing mountains though cols. — Anatole France

Word–carpentry is like any other kind of carpentry: you must join your sentences smoothly. — Anatole France