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He flattered himself on being a man without any prejudices and this pretension itself is a very great prejudice.
Anatole France
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Anatole France
Age: 80 †
Born: 1844
Born: April 16
Died: 1924
Died: October 12
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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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We reproach people for talking about themselves but it is the subject they treat best.
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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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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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You think you are dying for your country you die for the industrialists.
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An education which does not cultivate the will is an education that depraves the mind.
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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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We chase dreams and embrace shadows.
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A woman without breasts is like a bed without pillows.
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There are no bad books any more than there are ugly women.
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Nothing spoils a confession like repentance.
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The mania of thinking renders one unfit for every activity.
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The future is a convenient place for dreams.
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Good angels are fallible ... they sin every day and fall from Heaven like flies.
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The Kingdom of Heaven is a military autocracy and there is no public opinion in it.
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Of all the sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.
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The man of science multiples the points of contact between man and nature.
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The law ... allows rich as well as poor to sleep under bridges.
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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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It is human nature to think wisely and to act in an absurd fashion.
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