The good critic is one who tells of his mind's adventures among masterpieces.
• Series II : M. Jules Lemaître
• Series II : M. Jules Lemaître
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Le bon critique est celui qui raconte les aventures de son âme au milieu des chefs-d'œuvre.
— Anatole France
What It Means
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• Series II : M. Jules Lemaître" to mean that wisdom is timeless.
Source: Wikiquote: "Anatole France" (Quotes, The Literary Life (1888-1892): La Vie Littéraire - Full text online (French))
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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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