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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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War will disappear only when men shall take no part whatever in violence and shall be ready to suffer every persecution that their abstention will bring them. It is the only way to abolish war.
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Our passions are ourselves.
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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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Sometimes one day in a difference place gives you more than ten years of a life at home.
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We thank God for having created this world, and praise Him for having made another, quite different one, where the wrongs of this one are corrected.
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We live between two dense clouds the forgetting of what was and the uncertainty of what will be.
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We have never heard the devil's side of the story, God wrote all the book.
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