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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
François-Anatole Thibault
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Without the Utopians of other times, men would still live in caves, miserable and naked. It was Utopians who traced the lines of the first City.....Out of generous dreams come beneficial realities. Utopia is the principle of all progress, and the essay into a better future.
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Jealousy is a virtue of democracies which preserves them from tyrants.
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Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.
Anatole France
Human affairs inspire in noble hearts only two feelings-admiration or pity.
Anatole France
The Future is hidden even from those who are forging it.
Anatole France
A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Anatole France
I ought not to fear to survive my own people so long as there are men in the world for there are always some whom one can love.
Anatole France
Chance is the pseudonym God uses when He'd rather not sign His own name.
Anatole France
There are very honest people who do not think that they have had a bargain unless they have cheated a merchant.
Anatole France
Irony and pity are two good counselors: one, in smiling, makes life pleasurable the other, who cries, makes it sacred.
Anatole France
Nature, in her indifference, makes no distinction between good and evil.
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The best sentence? The shortest.
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The first virtue of all really great men is that they are sincere. They eradicate hypocrisy from their hearts.
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The good critic is he who relates the adventures of his soul among masterpieces.
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Of all the sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.
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In truth man is made rather to eat ices than to pore over old texts.
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The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.
Anatole France
Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.
Anatole France
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
Anatole France
All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves we must die to one life before we can enter another.
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