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Anatole France
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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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Of all earthly creatures, humans alone have the power to choose. One must never lose time in vainly regretting the past nor in complaining about the changes which cause us discomfort, for change is the very essence of life.
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A simple style is like white light. Although complex, it does not appear to be so.
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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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Distrust even Mathematics albeit so sublime and highly perfected, we have here a machine of such delicacy it can only work in vacuo, and one grain of sand in the wheels is enough to put everything out of gear. One shudders to think to what disaster such a grain of sand may bring a Mathematical brain. Remember Pascal.
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The impotence of God is infinite.
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If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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Nothing spoils a confession like repentance.
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America, where thanks to Congress, there are forty million laws to enforce the Ten Commandments.
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If it were absolutely necessary to choose, I would rather be guilty of an immoral act than of a cruel one.
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What frightens us most in a madman is his sane conversation.
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Yet, every now and then, there would pass a young girl, slender, fair and desirable, arousing in young men a not ignoble desire to possess her, and stirring in old men regrets for ecstasy not seized and now forever past.
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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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We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
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What we call strategy is mainly just crossing rivers on bridges and passing mountains though cols.
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I cling to my imperfection, as the very essence of my being.
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In truth man is made rather to eat ices than to pore over old texts.
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Good angels are fallible ... they sin every day and fall from Heaven like flies.
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Change is the essence of life.
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It is well for the heart to be naive and for the mind not to be.
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The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.
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