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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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When a history book contains no lies it is always tedious.
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Silence is the wit of fools.
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If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.
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Armenia is dying, but it will survive. The little blood that it still has left is precious blood that will give birth to a heroic generation. A nation that does not want to die, does not die.
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The Future is hidden even from those who are forging it.
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Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.
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You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.
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Lack of understanding is a great power. Sometimes it enables men to conquer the world.
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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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He flattered himself on being a man without any prejudices and this pretension itself is a very great prejudice.
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It is not easy to be a pretty woman without causing mischief.
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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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The power of love itself weakens and gradually becomes lost with age, like all the other energies of man.
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We thank God for having created this world, and praise Him for having made another, quite different one, where the wrongs of this one are corrected.
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Christianity has done a great deal for love by making a sin of it.
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What men call civilization is the condition of present customs what they call barbarism, the condition of past ones.
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Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.
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Chance is the pseudonym God uses when He'd rather not sign His own name.
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Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness.
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The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.
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