I'm tolerant of believers, but I'm agnostic. I'm curious to see how scientists will integrate the near-death experience into their research and if it will be explained.


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ANATOLE FRANCE
Nothing spoils a confession like repentance
ANATOLE FRANCE
It is only the poor who are forbidden to beg
ANATOLE FRANCE
The wonder is, not that the field of stars is so vast, but that man has measured it
ANATOLE FRANCE
All the historical books which contain no lies are extremely tedious
ANATOLE FRANCE
The finest words in the world are only vain sounds, if you cannot comprehend them
ANATOLE FRANCE
People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them
ANATOLE FRANCE
We reproach people for talking about themselves but it is the subject they treat best
ANATOLE FRANCE
It is well for the heart to be naive and for the mind not to be
ANATOLE FRANCE
Ignorance and error are necessary to life, like bread and water.
ANATOLE FRANCE
We live too much in books and not enough in nature, and we are very much like the simpleton of a Pli...
ANATOLE FRANCE
A woman must decide between a man who women like, and then have no security, or a man who women don�...
ANATOLE FRANCE
I would define a book as a work of magic whence escape, all kinds of images to trouble the souls and...
ANATOLE FRANCE
To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
ANATOLE FRANCE
In every well-governed state, wealth is a sacred thing; in democracies it is the only sacred thing
ANATOLE FRANCE
One thing above all gives charm to men's thoughts, and this is unrest. A mind that is not uneasy irr...
ANATOLE FRANCE
Existence would be intolerable if we were never to dream.
ANATOLE FRANCE
We are not happy that he has had a progression of pushing the envelope. We expect everybody to be ag...
BRIAN FRANCE
The average man does not know what to do with his life, yet wants another one which will last foreve...
ANATOLE FRANCE
Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that o...
ANATOLE FRANCE
The faculty of doubting is rare among men. A few choice spirits carry the germs of it in them, but t...
ANATOLE FRANCE
J'ai toujours préféré la folie des passions à la sagesse de l'indifférence.
ANATOLE FRANCE
Religion has done love a great service by making it a sin.
ANATOLE FRANCE
If it were absolutely necessary to choose, I would rather be guilty of an immoral act than of a crue...
ANATOLE FRANCE
America, where thanks to Congress, there are forty million laws to enforce the Ten Commandments
ANATOLE FRANCE
It was one of the deadliest and heaviest feelings of my life to feel that I was no longer a boy. Fro...
ANATOLE FRANCE
He despises men with tenderness
ANATOLE FRANCE
Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom
ANATOLE FRANCE
Religion has done love a great servive by making it a sin.
ANATOLE FRANCE
What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by c...
ANATOLE FRANCE
The first virtue of all really great men is that they are sincere
ANATOLE FRANCE
The impotence of God is infinite
ANATOLE FRANCE
If it were absolutely necessary to choose, I would rather be guilty of an immoral act than of a crue...
ANATOLE FRANCE
It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly
ANATOLE FRANCE
The future is a convenient place for dreams
ANATOLE FRANCE
A writer is rarely so well inspired as when he talks about himself
ANATOLE FRANCE