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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 power of love itself weakens and gradually becomes lost with age, like all the other energies of man.
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It is human nature to think wisely and to act in an absurd fashion.
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The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
Anatole France
Distrust even Mathematics albeit so sublime and highly perfected, we have here a machine of such delicacy it can only work in vacuo, and one grain of sand in the wheels is enough to put everything out of gear. One shudders to think to what disaster such a grain of sand may bring a Mathematical brain. Remember Pascal.
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You become a good writer just as you become a good joiner: by planing down your sentences.
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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.
Anatole France
People who have no weaknesses are terrible there is no way of taking advantage of them.
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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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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 almost impossible systematically to constitute a natural moral law. Nature has no principles. She furnishes us with no reason to believe that human life is to be respected. Nature, in her indifference, makes no distinction between good and evil.
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The good critic is he who relates the adventures of his soul among masterpieces.
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The average man does not know what to do with this life, yet wants another one which will last forever.
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Our passions are ourselves.
Anatole France
God forbids suicide, and is unwilling that his creatures should destroy themselves.
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A tale without love is like beef without mustard: insipid.
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In order that knowledge be properly digested it must have been swallowed with a good appetite.
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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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He flattered himself on being a man without any prejudices and this pretension itself is a very great prejudice.
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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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Custom alone regulates morals.
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