Christianity has done a great deal for love by making it a sin.
• Le Jardin d'Épicure [The Garden of Epicurus] (1894)
• Le Jardin d'Épicure [The Garden of Epicurus] (1894)
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Le christianisme a beaucoup fait pour l’amour en en faisant un péché.
• Variant translation: Religion has done love a great service by making it a sin.
— Anatole France
What It Means
This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "Le christianisme a beaucoup fait pour l’amour en en faisant un péché.
• Variant translation: Religion has done love a great service by making it a sin." in the context of "Christianity has done a great deal for love by making it a sin.
• Le Jardin d'Épicure [The Garden of Epicurus] (1894)" 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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