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Anatole France
Age: 80 †
Born: 1844
Born: April 16
Died: 1924
Died: October 12
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Critic
Librarian
Literary Critic
Novelist
Poet
Prosaist
Science Fiction Writer
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Paris
France
Jacques François-Anatole Thibault
François-Anatole Thibault
Anatole Thibault
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The law in its majesty prohibits rich and poor alike from sleeping under bridges.
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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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Stupidity is far more dangerous than evil, for evil takes a break from time to time, stupidity does not.
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To imagine is everything, to know is nothing at all.
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An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't.
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When a history book contains no lies it is always tedious.
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The good critic is he who relates the adventures of his soul among masterpieces.
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The faculty of doubting is rare among men. A few choice spirits carry the germs of it in them, but these do not develop without training.
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Ignorance and error are necessary to life, like bread and water.
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Of all the sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.
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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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Religion has done love a great service by making it a sin.
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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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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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Nine tenths of education is encouragement.
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Only men who are not interested in women are interested in women's clothes. Men who like women never notice what they wear.
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There are very honest people who do not think that they have had a bargain unless they have cheated a merchant.
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In its majestic equality, the law forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, beg in the streets and steal loaves of bread.
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In art as in love, instinct is enough.
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Innocence most often is a good fortune and not a virtue.
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