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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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Sometimes one day in a difference place gives you more than ten years of a life at home.
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For every monarchy overthrown the sky becomes less brilliant, because it loses a star. A republic is ugliness set free.
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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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True education is the ability to discern the difference between what you do know and what you don't.
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The good critic is he who relates the adventures of his soul among masterpieces.
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Men are not created to know, men are not created to understand ... and our illusions increase with our knowledge.
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A dictionary is merely the universe arranged in alphabetical order.
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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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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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The Future is hidden even from those who are forging it.
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Ugly women may be naturally quite as capricious as pretty ones but as they are never petted and spoiled, and as no allowances are made for them, they soon find themselves obliged either to suppress their whims or to hide them.
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It is well for the heart to be naive and for the mind not to be.
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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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Unhappiness does make people look stupid.
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I thank fate for having made me born poor. Poverty taught me the true value of the gifts useful to life.
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To imagine is everything, to know is nothing at all.
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