Ignorance and error are necessary to life, like bread and water.
• Pierre Nozière (1899), book II: Notes écrites par Pierre Nozière en marge de son gros Plutarque
• Pierre Nozière (1899), book II: Notes écrites par Pierre Nozière en marge de son gros Plutarque
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L'ignorance et l'erreur sont nécessaires à la vie comme le pain et l'eau.
— Anatole France
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• Pierre Nozière (1899), book II: Notes écrites par Pierre Nozière en marge de son gros Plutarque" 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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