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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
François-Anatole Thibault
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The power of love itself weakens and gradually becomes lost with age, like all the other energies of man.
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It is in the ability to deceive oneself that the greatest talent is shown.
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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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Sometimes one day in a difference place gives you more than ten years of a life at home.
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The mania of thinking renders one unfit for every activity.
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Jealousy is a virtue of democracies which preserves them from tyrants.
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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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What we call happiness is what we do not know.
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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 only the poor who are forbidden to beg.
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Never lend books, for no one ever returns them the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have left me.
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The future is a convenient place for dreams.
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He flattered himself on being a man without any prejudices and this pretension itself is a very great prejudice.
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Of all the sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.
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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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To die for an idea is to set a rather high price upon conjecture.
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Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.
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A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
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Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom.
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Silence is the wit of fools.
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