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You become a good writer just as you become a good joiner: by planing down your sentences.
Anatole France
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Anatole France
Age: 80 †
Born: 1844
Born: April 16
Died: 1924
Died: October 12
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Jacques François-Anatole Thibault
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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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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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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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Word-carpentry is like any other kind of carpentry: you must join your sentences smoothly.
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We reproach people for talking about themselves but it is the subject they treat best.
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It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
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We chase dreams and embrace shadows.
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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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Human affairs inspire in noble hearts only two feelings-admiration or pity.
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In every well-governed state wealth is a sacred thing in democracies it is the only sacred thing.
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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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In order that knowledge be properly digested it must have been swallowed with a good appetite.
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People who don't count won't count.
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A simple style is like white light. Although complex, it does not appear to be so.
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The truth is that life is delicious, horrible, charming, frightful, sweet, bitter, and that is everything.
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Jealousy is a virtue of democracies which preserves them from tyrants.
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Of all earthly creatures, humans alone have the power to choose. One must never lose time in vainly regretting the past nor in complaining about the changes which cause us discomfort, for change is the very essence of life.
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Distrust even Mathematics albeit so sublime and highly perfected, we have here a machine of such delicacy it can only work in vacuo, and one grain of sand in the wheels is enough to put everything out of gear. One shudders to think to what disaster such a grain of sand may bring a Mathematical brain. Remember Pascal.
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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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Nine tenths of education is encouragement.
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