The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard Quotes

“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. But the power of love itself weakens and gradually becomes lost with age, like all the other energies of man.”

― Anatole France, The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard

topic:loveage

“Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness.”

― Anatole France, The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard

topic:lovehappinesswriting

“Each one dreams the dream of life in his own way. I have dreamed it in my library; and when the hour shall come in which I must leave this world, may it please God to take me from my ladder—from before my shelves of books!”

― Anatole France, The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard

topic:lifebooksdream

“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 into another!”

― Anatole France, The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard

topic:lifechange

“Time deals gently only with those who take it gently.”

― Anatole France, The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard

topic:timekindness

“To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.”

― Anatole France, The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard

topic:knowledgeimagination

“The people who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.”

― Anatole France, The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard

topic:strengthweakness

“Unhappiness does make people look stupid,—I am perfectly sure it does.”

― Anatole France, The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard

topic:stupidity

“An education which does not cultivate the will, is an education that depraves the mind.”

― Anatole France, The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard

topic:educationmindwill

“But man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labour by taking up another.”

― Anatole France, The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard

topic:man