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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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All the good writers of confessions, from Augustine onwards, are men who are still a little in love with their sins.
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A dictionary is merely the universe arranged in alphabetical order.
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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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People who have no weaknesses are terrible there is no way of taking advantage of them.
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To imagine is everything, to know is nothing at all.
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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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People who don't count won't count.
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Change is the essence of life.
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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.
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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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