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A simple style is like white light. Although complex, it does not appear to be so.
Anatole France
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Anatole France
Age: 80 †
Born: 1844
Born: April 16
Died: 1924
Died: October 12
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It's not by amusing oneself that one learns.
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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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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.
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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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The finest words in the world are only vain sounds if you can't understand them. The best sentence? The shortest.
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Men are not created to know, men are not created to understand ... and our illusions increase with our knowledge.
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When a thing has been said and well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
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It is well for the heart to be naive and for the mind not to be.
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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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In every well-governed state wealth is a sacred thing in democracies it is the only sacred thing.
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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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It is human nature to think wisely and to act in an absurd fashion.
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The average man does not know what to do with this life, yet wants another one which will last forever.
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Of all the sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.
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To die for an idea is to set a rather high price upon conjecture.
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