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Anatole France
Age: 80 †
Born: 1844
Born: April 16
Died: 1924
Died: October 12
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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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The best sentence? The shortest.
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To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream not only plan, but also believe.
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I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
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Man is a rational animal. He can think up a reason for anything he wants to believe.
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Devout believers are safeguarded in a high degree against the risk of certain neurotic illnesses their acceptance of the universal neurosis spares them the task of constructing a personal one.
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It is human nature to think wisely and to act in an absurd fashion.
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Our passions are ourselves.
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Chance is the pseudonym God uses when He'd rather not sign His own name.
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Ugly women may be naturally quite as capricious as pretty ones but as they are never petted and spoiled, and as no allowances are made for them, they soon find themselves obliged either to suppress their whims or to hide them.
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Of all the sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.
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Until you have loved an animal, part of your soul will have remained dormant.
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You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.
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The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.
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No government ought to be without censors and where the press is free, no one ever will. Chance is the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.
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Religion has done love a great service by making it a sin.
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Intelligent women always marry fools
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When a history book contains no lies it is always tedious.
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I ought not to fear to survive my own people so long as there are men in the world for there are always some whom one can love.
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We have never heard the devil's side of the story, God wrote all the book.
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