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

— Anatole France, book The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard

Savoir n'est rien, imaginer est tout.
Pt. II, ch. 2
The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard (1881)

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French writer 1844–1924

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