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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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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.
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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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It is human nature to think wisely and to act in an absurd fashion.
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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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There is a certain impertinence in allowing oneself to be burned for an opinion.
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The man of science multiples the points of contact between man and nature.
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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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Those who have given themselves the most concern about the happiness of peoples have made their neighbors very miserable.
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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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A simple style is like white light. Although complex, it does not appear to be so.
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We have never heard the devil's side of the story, God wrote all the book.
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Caress your phrase tenderly it will end by smiling at you.
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I cling to my imperfection, as the very essence of my being.
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The Arab who built himself a hut with marbles from the temple of Palmyra is more philosophical than all the curators of the museums of London, Paris, and Munich.
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One thing above all gives charm to men's thoughts, and this is unrest. A mind that is not uneasy irritates and bores me.
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To imagine is everything, to know is nothing at all.
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The Kingdom of Heaven is a military autocracy and there is no public opinion in it.
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Innocence most often is a good fortune and not a virtue.
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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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Without the Utopians of other times, men would still live in caves, miserable and naked. It was Utopians who traced the lines of the first City.....Out of generous dreams come beneficial realities. Utopia is the principle of all progress, and the essay into a better future.
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