Quotes by Anatole France

“Our passions are ourselves. My old books are Me. I am just as old and thumb-worn as they are.”

“He was fatigued with active life; and he loved his fatigue. Seated beside the fire in his big arm-chair, he used to read from morning till night.... it was utterly useless attempting to interest him in anything practical whatever.”

“Then on my return home from the second-hand bookstore, I have to endure the outcries of my housekeeper, who accuses me of bursting all my pockets and filling the house with waste paper to attract the rats.”

“To be the least wise in order to become the most wise — this is precisely what those Buddhists are aiming at without knowing it.”