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I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
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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In art as in love, instinct is enough.
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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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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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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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Custom alone regulates morals.
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You think you are dying for your country you die for the industrialists.
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Of all the sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.
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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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It is good to collect things, but it is better to go on walks.
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God, conquered, will become Satan Satan, conquering, will become God. May the fates spare me this terrible lot I love the Hell which formed my genius. I love the Earth where I have done some good, if it be possible to do any good in this fearful world where beings live but by rapine.
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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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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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When a thing has been said and well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
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Suffering... We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.
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Our passions are ourselves.
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In its majestic equality, the law forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, beg in the streets and steal loaves of bread.
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The future is a convenient place for dreams.
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A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
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