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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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Stupidity is far more dangerous than evil, for evil takes a break from time to time, stupidity does not.
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The impotence of God is infinite.
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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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Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.
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There is only one science, love, one riches, love, only one policy, love. To make love is all the law and the prophets.
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Innocence most often is a good fortune and not a virtue.
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Without the Utopians of other times, men would still live in caves, miserable and naked. It was Utopians who traced the lines of the first City.....Out of generous dreams come beneficial realities. Utopia is the principle of all progress, and the essay into a better future.
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Until you have loved an animal, part of your soul will have remained dormant.
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You think you are dying for your country you die for the industrialists.
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Until one has loved an animal a part of one's soul remains unawakened.
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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 cling to my imperfection, as the very essence of my being.
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It is in the ability to deceive oneself that the greatest talent is shown.
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What men call civilization is the condition of present customs what they call barbarism, the condition of past ones.
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Nothing spoils a confession like repentance.
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Intelligent women always marry fools
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Only men who are not interested in women are interested in women's clothes. Men who like women never notice what they wear.
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The truth is that life is delicious, horrible, charming, frightful, sweet, bitter, and that is everything.
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A woman without breasts is like a bed without pillows.
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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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