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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.
Anatole France
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Anatole France
Age: 80 †
Born: 1844
Born: April 16
Died: 1924
Died: October 12
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Silence is the wit of fools.
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Religion has done love a great service by making it a sin.
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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 truth is that life is delicious, horrible, charming, frightful, sweet, bitter, and that is everything.
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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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