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Time deals gently only with those who take it gently.
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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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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What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster!
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People who don't count won't count.
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Of all the ways of defining man, the worst is the one which makes him out to be a rational animal.
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Sometimes one day in a difference place gives you more than ten years of a life at home.
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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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The wonder is, not that the field of stars is so vast, but that man has measured it.
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Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.
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Ugly women may be naturally quite as capricious as pretty ones but as they are never petted and spoiled, and as no allowances are made for them, they soon find themselves obliged either to suppress their whims or to hide them.
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What we call happiness is what we do not know.
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In art as in love, instinct is enough.
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The more you say, the less they remember.
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