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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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Religion has done love a great service by making it a sin.
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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 dog is a religious animal. In his savage state he worships the moon and the lights that float upon the waters. These are his gods to whom he appeals at night with long-drawn howls.
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One thing above all gives charm to men's thoughts, and this is unrest. A mind that is not uneasy irritates and bores me.
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That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future.
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To imagine is everything, to know is nothing at all.
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Stupidity is far more dangerous than evil, for evil takes a break from time to time, stupidity does not.
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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 well for the heart to be naive and for the mind not to be.
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It is only the poor who are forbidden to beg.
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The finest words in the world are only vain sounds if you can't understand them. The best sentence? The shortest.
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People who have no weaknesses are terrible there is no way of taking advantage of them.
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To die for an idea is to set a rather high price upon conjecture.
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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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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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There is a certain impertinence in allowing oneself to be burned for an opinion.
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The Arab who built himself a hut with marbles from the temple of Palmyra is more philosophical than all the curators of the museums of London, Paris, and Munich.
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A dictionary is merely the universe arranged in alphabetical order.
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The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.
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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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