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Anatole France
Age: 80 †
Born: 1844
Born: April 16
Died: 1924
Died: October 12
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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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The power of love itself weakens and gradually becomes lost with age, like all the other energies of man.
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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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The law ... allows rich as well as poor to sleep under bridges.
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Nature, in her indifference, makes no distinction between good and evil.
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People who don't count won't count.
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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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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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I do not know any reading more easy, more fascinating, more delightful than a catalogue.
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In art as in love, instinct is enough.
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The Future is hidden even from those who are forging it.
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Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.
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A simple style is like white light. Although complex, it does not appear to be so.
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It is in the ability to deceive oneself that the greatest talent is shown.
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The good critic is he who relates the adventures of his soul among masterpieces.
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What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster!
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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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Chance is the pseudonym God uses when He'd rather not sign His own name.
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Until you have loved an animal, part of your soul will have remained dormant.
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The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.
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