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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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Jacques François-Anatole Thibault
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It is only the poor who are forbidden to beg.
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So long as society is founded on injustice, the function of the laws will be to defend injustice. And the more unjust they are the more respectable they will seem.
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There are no bad books any more than there are ugly women.
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It's not by amusing oneself that one learns.
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What we call strategy is mainly just crossing rivers on bridges and passing mountains though cols.
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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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I ought not to fear to survive my own people so long as there are men in the world for there are always some whom one can love.
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Devout believers are safeguarded in a high degree against the risk of certain neurotic illnesses their acceptance of the universal neurosis spares them the task of constructing a personal one.
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What frightens us most in a madman is his sane conversation.
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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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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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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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It is well for the heart to be naive and for the mind not to be.
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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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A simple style is like white light. Although complex, it does not appear to be so.
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Armenia is dying, but it will survive. The little blood that it still has left is precious blood that will give birth to a heroic generation. A nation that does not want to die, does not die.
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Caress your phrase tenderly it will end by smiling at you.
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Existence would be intolerable if we were never to dream.
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Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness.
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