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The truth is that life is delicious, horrible, charming, frightful, sweet, bitter, and that is everything.
Anatole France
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Anatole France
Age: 80 †
Born: 1844
Born: April 16
Died: 1924
Died: October 12
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Paris
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Jacques François-Anatole Thibault
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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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The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.
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Silence is the wit of fools.
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It is only the poor who are forbidden to beg.
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Our passions are ourselves.
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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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The wonder is, not that the field of stars is so vast, but that man has measured it.
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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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He flattered himself on being a man without any prejudices and this pretension itself is a very great prejudice.
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