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Chance is the pseudonym God uses when He'd rather not sign His own name.
Anatole France
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Anatole France
Age: 80 †
Born: 1844
Born: April 16
Died: 1924
Died: October 12
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When a thing has been said and well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
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I thank fate for having made me born poor. Poverty taught me the true value of the gifts useful to life.
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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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I cling to my imperfection, as the very essence of my being.
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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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You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.
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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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We have never heard the devil's side of the story, God wrote all the book.
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Devout believers are safeguarded in a high degree against the risk of certain neurotic illnesses their acceptance of the universal neurosis spares them the task of constructing a personal one.
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The duty of literature is to note what counts, and to light up what is suited to the light. If it ceases to choose and to love, it becomes like a woman who gives herself without preference.
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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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Change is the essence of life.
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Do not try to satisfy your vanity by teaching a great many things. Awaken people's curiosity. It is enough to open minds do not overload them. Put there just a spark. If there is some good inflammable stuff, it will catch fire.
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What frightens us most in a madman is his sane conversation.
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It is remarkable how great an influence our clothes have on our moral state.
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People who don't count won't count.
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In its majestic equality, the law forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, beg in the streets and steal loaves of bread.
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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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Until one has loved an animal a part of one's soul remains unawakened.
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Jealousy is a virtue of democracies which preserves them from tyrants.
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