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A tale without love is like beef without mustard: insipid.
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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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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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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Stupidity is far more dangerous than evil, for evil takes a break from time to time, stupidity does not.
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Justice is the sanction of established injustice.
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Silence is the wit of fools.
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What we call happiness is what we do not know.
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It is only the poor who pay cash, and that not from virtue, but because they are refused credit.
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