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In art as in love, instinct is enough.
Anatole France
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Anatole France
Age: 80 †
Born: 1844
Born: April 16
Died: 1924
Died: October 12
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Jacques François-Anatole Thibault
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It is better to understand little than to misunderstand a lot.
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Stupidity is far more dangerous than evil, for evil takes a break from time to time, stupidity does not.
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Without the Utopians of other times, men would still live in caves, miserable and naked. It was Utopians who traced the lines of the first City.....Out of generous dreams come beneficial realities. Utopia is the principle of all progress, and the essay into a better future.
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An education which does not cultivate the will is an education that depraves the mind.
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Suffering... We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.
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Good angels are fallible ... they sin every day and fall from Heaven like flies.
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The Kingdom of Heaven is a military autocracy and there is no public opinion in it.
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The best sentence? The shortest.
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It is remarkable how great an influence our clothes have on our moral state.
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It is by acts, and not by ideas, that people ensure the bar down the street cannot have a patio.
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A tale without love is like beef without mustard: insipid.
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What men call civilization is the condition of present customs what they call barbarism, the condition of past ones.
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Devout believers are safeguarded in a high degree against the risk of certain neurotic illnesses their acceptance of the universal neurosis spares them the task of constructing a personal one.
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I am a physician. I keep a drug-shop of lies. I give relief, consolation. Can one console and relieve without lying? ... Only women and doctors know how necessary and how helpful lies are to men.
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Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.
Anatole France
Irony and pity are two good counselors: one, in smiling, makes life pleasurable the other, who cries, makes it sacred.
Anatole France
The more you say, the less they remember.
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We thank God for having created this world, and praise Him for having made another, quite different one, where the wrongs of this one are corrected.
Anatole France
Dog! When we first met on the highway of life, we came from the two poles of creation.... What can be the meaning of the obscure love for me that has sprung up in your heart?
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So long as society is founded on injustice, the function of the laws will be to defend injustice. And the more unjust they are the more respectable they will seem.
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