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A good critic is the man who describes his adventures among masterpieces.
Anatole France
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Anatole France
Age: 80 †
Born: 1844
Born: April 16
Died: 1924
Died: October 12
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Suffering... We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.
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When a thing has been said and well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
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Human affairs inspire in noble hearts only two feelings-admiration or pity.
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Time deals gently only with those who take it gently.
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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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Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.
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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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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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It is not customary to love what one has.
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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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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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People who don't count won't count.
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That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future.
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To imagine is everything, to know is nothing at all.
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Awaken people's curiosity. It is enough to open minds, do not overload them. Put there just a spark.
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Yet, every now and then, there would pass a young girl, slender, fair and desirable, arousing in young men a not ignoble desire to possess her, and stirring in old men regrets for ecstasy not seized and now forever past.
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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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