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

Savoir n'est rien, imaginer est tout.

Anatole France

The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard

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Topic

Imagination Knowledge

Speaker

Fairy

Author

Anatole France

Source

The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard

Medium

Novel

Language

French

Time

1881 1880s 19th century

Occupation

Poet Writer

From

France Europe

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Citation

France, Anatole. Le Crime de Sylvestre Bonnard [The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard]. Paris: Calmann-Lévy, 1881, pt. 2, ch. 2.

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Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men.

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Source
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Medium
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Statement Type
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You're on a need-to-know basis, and you don't need to know.

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Actor
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Source
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Medium
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Time
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Another quote originally in French

The extermination camps, in endeavoring to turn man into a beast, intimated that it is not life alone which makes him man.

Andre Malraux

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The Holocaust

Author

Andre Malraux
Language
French
Time
1967 1960s 20th century
Authentication Score 3
Citation

Malraux, Andre. Antimemoires [Anti-memoirs]. Gallimard, 1967, sect. 2.