To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything. - Anatole France

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

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Anatole France (16 April 1844 – 12 October 1924), born Jacques Anatole François Thibault, was a French poet, journalist, and novelist. Ironic and skeptical, he was considered in his day the ideal French man of letters. A member of the Académie française, he won the 1921 Nobel Prize in Literature in recognition of his literary achievements. He is widely believed to be the model for the narrator's literary idol "Bergotte" in Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time.

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Pen Names: Anatolis Fransas

Alternative Names: Jacques François-Anatole Thibault • François-Anatole Thibault • Anatole Thibault

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Il est bon que le cœur soit naïf et que l’esprit ne le soit pas.

Only men who are not interested in women are interested in women's clothes. Men who like women see more than how they dress.

— Je porte dans mon coeur des villes innombrables et des déserts illimités. Et le mal, le mal et la mort, étendus sur cette immensité, la couvrent comme la nuit couvre la terre. Je suis à moi seul un univers de pensées mauvaises.

Il parlait ainsi parce que le désir de la femme était en lui.

To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything. - Anatole France

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