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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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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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It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
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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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The law in its majesty prohibits rich and poor alike from sleeping under bridges.
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The future is a convenient place for dreams.
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Existence would be intolerable if we were never to dream.
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I do not know any reading more easy, more fascinating, more delightful than a catalogue.
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Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom.
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So long as society is founded on injustice, the function of the laws will be to defend injustice. And the more unjust they are the more respectable they will seem.
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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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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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The wonder is, not that the field of stars is so vast, but that man has measured 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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Lack of understanding is a great power. Sometimes it enables men to conquer the world.
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It's not by amusing oneself that one learns.
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For every monarchy overthrown the sky becomes less brilliant, because it loses a star. A republic is ugliness set free.
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It is not customary to love what one has.
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The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.
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