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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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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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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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In order that knowledge be properly digested it must have been swallowed with a good appetite.
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Justice is the means by which established injustices are sanctioned
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The more you say, the less they remember.
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War will disappear only when men shall take no part whatever in violence and shall be ready to suffer every persecution that their abstention will bring them. It is the only way to abolish war.
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Nature, in her indifference, makes no distinction between good and evil.
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What frightens us most in a madman is his sane conversation.
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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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A good critic is the man who describes his adventures among masterpieces.
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An education which does not cultivate the will is an education that depraves the mind.
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You think you are dying for your country you die for the industrialists.
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That child whose mother has never smiled upon him is worthy neither of the table of the gods nor the couch of the goddesses.
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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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The finest words in the world are only vain sounds if you can't understand them. The best sentence? The shortest.
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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.
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People who have no weaknesses are terrible there is no way of taking advantage of them.
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