It is human nature to think wisely and to act in an absurd fashion.
• Le livre de mon ami (1885): Le livre de Pierre, part I, ch. II: La dame en blanc
• Le livre de mon ami (1885): Le livre de Pierre, part I, ch. II: La dame en blanc
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Il est dans la nature humaine de penser sagement et d'agir d'une façon absurde.
— Anatole France
What It Means
This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "Il est dans la nature humaine de penser sagement et d'agir d'une façon absurde." in the context of "It is human nature to think wisely and to act in an absurd fashion.
• Le livre de mon ami (1885): Le livre de Pierre, part I, ch. II: La dame en blanc" to mean that wisdom is timeless.
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About Anatole France
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.
About Anatole France
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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