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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.
Anatole France
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Anatole France
Age: 80 †
Born: 1844
Born: April 16
Died: 1924
Died: October 12
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One thing above all gives charm to men's thoughts, and this is unrest. A mind that is not uneasy irritates and bores me.
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We reproach people for talking about themselves but it is the subject they treat best.
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The truth is that life is delicious, horrible, charming, frightful, sweet, bitter, and that is everything.
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Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.
Anatole France
The mania of thinking renders one unfit for every activity.
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Irony and pity are two good counselors: one, in smiling, makes life pleasurable the other, who cries, makes it sacred.
Anatole France
Ugly women may be naturally quite as capricious as pretty ones but as they are never petted and spoiled, and as no allowances are made for them, they soon find themselves obliged either to suppress their whims or to hide them.
Anatole France
It is by acts, and not by ideas, that people ensure the bar down the street cannot have a patio.
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It is by believing in roses that you make them bloom.
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Good angels are fallible ... they sin every day and fall from Heaven like flies.
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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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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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A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
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The future is a convenient place for dreams.
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It is remarkable how great an influence our clothes have on our moral state.
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To imagine is everything, to know is nothing at all.
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Play is hand-to-hand encounter with Fate.
Anatole France
Never lend books, for no one ever returns them the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have left me.
Anatole France
We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
Anatole France
The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.
Anatole France
