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A dictionary is merely the universe arranged in alphabetical order.
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
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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The future is a convenient place for dreams.
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A writer is rarely so well inspired as when he talks about himself.
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Until you have loved an animal, part of your soul will have remained dormant.
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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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The heart errs like the head its errors are not any the less fatal, and we have more trouble getting free of them because of their sweetness.
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It is better to understand little than to misunderstand a lot.
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History books that contain no lies are extremely dull.
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The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
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Nature, in her indifference, makes no distinction between good and evil.
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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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I am a physician. I keep a drug-shop of lies. I give relief, consolation. Can one console and relieve without lying? ... Only women and doctors know how necessary and how helpful lies are to men.
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Dog! When we first met on the highway of life, we came from the two poles of creation.... What can be the meaning of the obscure love for me that has sprung up in your heart?
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It is well for the heart to be naive and for the mind not to be.
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If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.
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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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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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Jealousy is a virtue of democracies which preserves them from tyrants.
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We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
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The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.
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