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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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A woman without breasts is like a bed without pillows.
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The mania of thinking renders one unfit for every activity.
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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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An old philosopher said to Monsieur Coignard, a Reverend Father: 'You are a pig!' To which Abad Coignard answered: 'You flatter me, sir. But unfortunately, I'm only a man.'
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Nothing spoils a confession like repentance.
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The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.
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An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't.
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Ignorance and error are necessary to life, like bread and water.
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The best sentence? The shortest.
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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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In truth man is made rather to eat ices than to pore over old texts.
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It is human nature to think wisely and to act in an absurd fashion.
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Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness.
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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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What we call happiness is what we do not know.
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The more you say, the less they remember.
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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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A simple style is like white light. Although complex, it does not appear to be so.
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The future is a convenient place for dreams.
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