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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
François-Anatole Thibault
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Of all earthly creatures, humans alone have the power to choose. One must never lose time in vainly regretting the past nor in complaining about the changes which cause us discomfort, for change is the very essence of life.
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Universal peace will be realized, not because man will become better, but because a new order of things, a new science, new economic necessities, will impose peace.
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All the good writers of confessions, from Augustine onwards, are men who are still a little in love with their sins.
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In every well-governed state wealth is a sacred thing in democracies it is the only sacred thing.
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The duty of literature is to note what counts, and to light up what is suited to the light. If it ceases to choose and to love, it becomes like a woman who gives herself without preference.
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The power of love itself weakens and gradually becomes lost with age, like all the other energies of man.
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When a thing has been said and well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
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War will disappear only when men shall take no part whatever in violence and shall be ready to suffer every persecution that their abstention will bring them. It is the only way to abolish war.
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If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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It's not by amusing oneself that one learns.
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