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The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.
Anatole France
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Anatole France
Age: 80 †
Born: 1844
Born: April 16
Died: 1924
Died: October 12
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We live between two dense clouds the forgetting of what was and the uncertainty of what will 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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Lack of understanding is a great power. Sometimes it enables men to conquer the world.
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Only men who are not interested in women are interested in women's clothes. Men who like women never notice what they wear.
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The law in its majesty prohibits rich and poor alike from sleeping under bridges.
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The Future is hidden even from those who are forging it.
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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 one has loved an animal a part of one's soul remains unawakened.
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There is only one science, love, one riches, love, only one policy, love. To make love is all the law and the prophets.
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Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.
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What frightens us most in a madman is his sane conversation.
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Religion has done love a great service by making it a sin.
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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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Distrust even Mathematics albeit so sublime and highly perfected, we have here a machine of such delicacy it can only work in vacuo, and one grain of sand in the wheels is enough to put everything out of gear. One shudders to think to what disaster such a grain of sand may bring a Mathematical brain. Remember Pascal.
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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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What we call happiness is what we do not know.
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Those who have given themselves the most concern about the happiness of peoples have made their neighbors very miserable.
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The best sentence? The shortest.
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There is a certain impertinence in allowing oneself to be burned for an opinion.
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To imagine is everything, to know is nothing at all.
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