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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.
Anatole France
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Anatole France
Age: 80 †
Born: 1844
Born: April 16
Died: 1924
Died: October 12
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Without the Utopians of other times, men would still live in caves, miserable and naked. It was Utopians who traced the lines of the first City.....Out of generous dreams come beneficial realities. Utopia is the principle of all progress, and the essay into a better future.
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The man of science multiples the points of contact between man and nature.
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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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It is well for the heart to be naive and for the mind not to be.
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It is by acts, and not by ideas, that people ensure the bar down the street cannot have a patio.
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True education is the ability to discern the difference between what you do know and what you don't.
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Human affairs inspire in noble hearts only two feelings-admiration or pity.
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Innocence most often is a good fortune and not a virtue.
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I am a physician. I keep a drug-shop of lies. I give relief, consolation. Can one console and relieve without lying? ... Only women and doctors know how necessary and how helpful lies are to men.
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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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The power of love itself weakens and gradually becomes lost with age, like all the other energies of man.
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Man is a rational animal. He can think up a reason for anything he wants to believe.
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A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
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Play is hand-to-hand encounter with Fate.
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Until one has loved an animal a part of one's soul remains unawakened.
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If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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I cling to my imperfection, as the very essence of my being.
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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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People who don't count won't count.
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