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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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That child whose mother has never smiled upon him is worthy neither of the table of the gods nor the couch of the goddesses.
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Sometimes one day in a difference place gives you more than ten years of a life at home.
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It is remarkable how great an influence our clothes have on our moral state.
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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.
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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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The finest words in the world are only vain sounds if you can't understand them. The best sentence? The shortest.
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It is human nature to think wisely and to act in an absurd fashion.
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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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Yet, every now and then, there would pass a young girl, slender, fair and desirable, arousing in young men a not ignoble desire to possess her, and stirring in old men regrets for ecstasy not seized and now forever past.
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The truth is that life is delicious, horrible, charming, frightful, sweet, bitter, and that is everything.
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It is only the poor who are forbidden to beg.
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Never lend books, for no one ever returns them the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have left me.
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The average man does not know what to do with this life, yet wants another one which will last forever.
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The good critic is he who relates the adventures of his soul among masterpieces.
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The best sentence? The shortest.
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Innocence most often is a good fortune and not a virtue.
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The faculty of doubting is rare among men. A few choice spirits carry the germs of it in them, but these do not develop without training.
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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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The law ... allows rich as well as poor to sleep under bridges.
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No government ought to be without censors and where the press is free, no one ever will. Chance is the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.
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