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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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A good critic is the man who describes his adventures among masterpieces.
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It is remarkable how great an influence our clothes have on our moral state.
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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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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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A writer is rarely so well inspired as when he talks about himself.
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You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.
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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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There is a certain impertinence in allowing oneself to be burned for an opinion.
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It is human nature to think wisely and to act in an absurd fashion.
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A dictionary is merely the universe arranged in alphabetical order.
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That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future.
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The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.
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It is in the ability to deceive oneself that the greatest talent is shown.
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It is only the poor who are forbidden to beg.
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It is almost impossible systematically to constitute a natural moral law. Nature has no principles. She furnishes us with no reason to believe that human life is to be respected. Nature, in her indifference, makes no distinction between good and evil.
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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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A simple style is like white light. Although complex, it does not appear to be so.
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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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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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Until you have loved an animal, part of your soul will have remained dormant.
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