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When a thing has been said and well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
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 chase dreams and embrace shadows.
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In art as in love, instinct is enough.
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Men are not created to know, men are not created to understand ... and our illusions increase with our knowledge.
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We reproach people for talking about themselves but it is the subject they treat best.
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True education is the ability to discern the difference between what you do know and what you don't.
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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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War will disappear only when men shall take no part whatever in violence and shall be ready to suffer every persecution that their abstention will bring them. It is the only way to abolish war.
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