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A writer is rarely so well inspired as when he talks about himself.
Anatole France
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Anatole France
Age: 80 †
Born: 1844
Born: April 16
Died: 1924
Died: October 12
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The dog is a religious animal. In his savage state he worships the moon and the lights that float upon the waters. These are his gods to whom he appeals at night with long-drawn howls.
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Never lend books, for no one ever returns them the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have left me.
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Awaken people's curiosity. It is enough to open minds, do not overload them. Put there just a spark.
Anatole France
If it were absolutely necessary to choose, I would rather be guilty of an immoral act than of a cruel one.
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What we call strategy is mainly just crossing rivers on bridges and passing mountains though cols.
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The mania of thinking renders one unfit for every activity.
Anatole France
The finest words in the world are only vain sounds if you can't understand them. The best sentence? The shortest.
Anatole France
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.
Anatole France
Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.
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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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If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.
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Play is hand-to-hand encounter with Fate.
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The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.
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Our passions are ourselves.
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There are very honest people who do not think that they have had a bargain unless they have cheated a merchant.
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All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves we must die to one life before we can enter another.
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Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.
Anatole France
To imagine is everything, to know is nothing at all.
Anatole France
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.
Anatole France
Nothing spoils a confession like repentance.
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