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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
Anatole Thibault
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The future is a convenient place for dreams.
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There is only one science, love, one riches, love, only one policy, love. To make love is all the law and the prophets.
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The law ... allows rich as well as poor to sleep under bridges.
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Truth possesses within herself a penetrating force, unknown alike to error and falsehood. I say 'truth' and you understand my meaning. For the beautiful words truth and justice need not to be defined in order to be understood in their true sense.
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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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The Future is hidden even from those who are forging it.
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The wonder is, not that the field of stars is so vast, but that man has measured it.
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Yet, every now and then, there would pass a young girl, slender, fair and desirable, arousing in young men a not ignoble desire to possess her, and stirring in old men regrets for ecstasy not seized and now forever past.
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If it were absolutely necessary to choose, I would rather be guilty of an immoral act than of a cruel one.
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The truth is that life is delicious, horrible, charming, frightful, sweet, bitter, and that is everything.
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Play is hand-to-hand encounter with Fate.
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The best sentence? The shortest.
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For every monarchy overthrown the sky becomes less brilliant, because it loses a star. A republic is ugliness set free.
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Of all the sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.
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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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Do not try to satisfy your vanity by teaching a great many things. Awaken people's curiosity. It is enough to open minds do not overload them. Put there just a spark. If there is some good inflammable stuff, it will catch fire.
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In art as in love, instinct is enough.
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The man of science multiples the points of contact between man and nature.
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Ignorance and error are necessary to life, like bread and water.
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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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