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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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The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.
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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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A tale without love is like beef without mustard: insipid.
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The law in its majesty prohibits rich and poor alike from sleeping under bridges.
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Justice is the sanction of established injustice.
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It is well for the heart to be naive and for the mind not to be.
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That child whose mother has never smiled upon him is worthy neither of the table of the gods nor the couch of the goddesses.
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The Kingdom of Heaven is a military autocracy and there is no public opinion in it.
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The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.
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Of all earthly creatures, humans alone have the power to choose. One must never lose time in vainly regretting the past nor in complaining about the changes which cause us discomfort, for change is the very essence of life.
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A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance. [The ability to focus on positives and distract your mind from negatives for at least a time is a necessary skill for being happy.]
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A writer is rarely so well inspired as when he talks about himself.
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Silence is the wit of fools.
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Christianity has done a great deal for love by making a sin of it.
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The more you say, the less they remember.
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There is a certain impertinence in allowing oneself to be burned for an opinion.
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All the good writers of confessions, from Augustine onwards, are men who are still a little in love with their sins.
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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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Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness.
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What we call happiness is what we do not know.
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