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Science neither cares to please nor to displease. She is inhuman. It is not science but poetry that charms and consoles. And that is why poetry is more necessary than science.
— Anatole France Bee: The Princess of the Dwarfs
Tags: science, poetry, consolation

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We have never heard the devil's side of the story, God wrote all the book.
— Anatole France
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It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.
— Anatole France
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Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.
— Anatole France
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I thank fate for having made me born poor. Poverty taught me the true value of the gifts useful to life.
— Anatole France
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We do not know what to do with this short life, yet we want another which will be eternal.
— Anatole France
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