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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.
Anatole France
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Anatole France
Age: 80 †
Born: 1844
Born: April 16
Died: 1924
Died: October 12
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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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True education is the ability to discern the difference between what you do know and what you don't.
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It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.
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The man of science multiples the points of contact between man and nature.
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Devout believers are safeguarded in a high degree against the risk of certain neurotic illnesses their acceptance of the universal neurosis spares them the task of constructing a personal one.
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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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All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves we must die to one life before we can enter another.
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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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To die for an idea is to set a rather high price upon conjecture.
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There are no bad books any more than there are ugly women.
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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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Sometimes one day in a difference place gives you more than ten years of a life at home.
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Universal peace will be realized, not because man will become better, but because a new order of things, a new science, new economic necessities, will impose peace.
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Armenia is dying, but it will survive. The little blood that it still has left is precious blood that will give birth to a heroic generation. A nation that does not want to die, does not die.
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That child whose mother has never smiled upon him is worthy neither of the table of the gods nor the couch of the goddesses.
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