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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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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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Innocence most often is a good fortune and not a virtue.
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Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom.
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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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An old philosopher said to Monsieur Coignard, a Reverend Father: 'You are a pig!' To which Abad Coignard answered: 'You flatter me, sir. But unfortunately, I'm only a man.'
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Good angels are fallible ... they sin every day and fall from Heaven like flies.
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The mania of thinking renders one unfit for every activity.
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No government ought to be without censors and where the press is free, no one ever will. Chance is the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.
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Existence would be intolerable if we were never to dream.
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You think you are dying for your country you die for the industrialists.
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What frightens us most in a madman is his sane conversation.
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Irony and pity are two good counselors: one, in smiling, makes life pleasurable the other, who cries, makes it sacred.
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It is good to collect things, but it is better to go on walks.
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There is a certain impertinence in allowing oneself to be burned for an opinion.
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I cling to my imperfection, as the very essence of my being.
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I thank fate for having made me born poor. Poverty taught me the true value of the gifts useful to life.
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The duty of literature is to note what counts, and to light up what is suited to the light. If it ceases to choose and to love, it becomes like a woman who gives herself without preference.
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The heart errs like the head its errors are not any the less fatal, and we have more trouble getting free of them because of their sweetness.
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Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.
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The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.
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