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Our passions are ourselves.
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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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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Existence would be intolerable if we were never to dream.
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A writer is rarely so well inspired as when he talks about himself.
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I thank fate for having made me born poor. Poverty taught me the true value of the gifts useful to life.
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A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance. [The ability to focus on positives and distract your mind from negatives for at least a time is a necessary skill for being happy.]
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Lack of understanding is a great power. Sometimes it enables men to conquer the world.
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To die for an idea is to set a rather high price upon conjecture.
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In art as in love, instinct is enough.
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The impotence of God is infinite.
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Good angels are fallible ... they sin every day and fall from Heaven like flies.
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Religion has done love a great service by making it a sin.
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People who have no weaknesses are terrible there is no way of taking advantage of them.
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The more you say, the less they remember.
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Of all the sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.
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The heart errs like the head its errors are not any the less fatal, and we have more trouble getting free of them because of their sweetness.
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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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The Kingdom of Heaven is a military autocracy and there is no public opinion in it.
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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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Of all the ways of defining man, the worst is the one which makes him out to be a rational animal.
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