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We chase dreams and embrace shadows.
Anatole France
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Anatole France
Age: 80 †
Born: 1844
Born: April 16
Died: 1924
Died: October 12
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France
Jacques François-Anatole Thibault
François-Anatole Thibault
Anatole Thibault
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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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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.
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Distrust even Mathematics albeit so sublime and highly perfected, we have here a machine of such delicacy it can only work in vacuo, and one grain of sand in the wheels is enough to put everything out of gear. One shudders to think to what disaster such a grain of sand may bring a Mathematical brain. Remember Pascal.
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It is good to collect things, but it is better to go on walks.
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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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Stupidity is far more dangerous than evil, for evil takes a break from time to time, stupidity does not.
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It's not by amusing oneself that one learns.
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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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I do not know any reading more easy, more fascinating, more delightful than a catalogue.
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What frightens us most in a madman is his sane conversation.
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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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The heart errs like the head its errors are not any the less fatal, and we have more trouble getting free of them because of their sweetness.
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Dog! When we first met on the highway of life, we came from the two poles of creation.... What can be the meaning of the obscure love for me that has sprung up in your heart?
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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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Caress your phrase tenderly it will end by smiling at you.
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Ignorance and error are necessary to life, like bread and water.
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A good critic is the man who describes his adventures among masterpieces.
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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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Nothing spoils a confession like repentance.
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It is well for the heart to be naive and for the mind not to be.
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