Le Jardin D'épicure
1894
Le Jardin D'épicure, published in 1894 by Anatole France, is a philosophical novel that explores themes of existence, suffering, love, and the human condition. The narrative contrasts ancient geocentric beliefs with contemporary understandings of the universe, delving into humanity's existential struggles. Through rich reflections, France critiques societal norms surrounding love and desire, emphasizing the intricate balance between pleasure and pain as essential to life's beauty.
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“It is possible that these millions of suns, along with thousands of millions more we cannot see, make up altogether but a globule of blood or lymph in the veins of an animal, of a minute insect, hatched in a world of whose vastness we can frame no conception, but which nevertheless would itself, in proportion to some other world, be no more than a speck of dust.””
— Anatole France
“Ignorance is the necessary condition, i do not say of happiness, but of life itself. If we knew everything, we could not endure existence a single hour. The sentiments that make it sweet to us, or at any rate tolerable, spring from a falsehood, and are fed on illusions.If, like God, a man possessed the truth, the sole and perfect truth, and once let it escape out of his hands, the world would be annihilated there and then, and the universe melt away instantly like a shadow.””
— Anatole France
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