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People who don't count won't count.
Anatole France
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Anatole France
Age: 80 †
Born: 1844
Born: April 16
Died: 1924
Died: October 12
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The man of science multiples the points of contact between man and nature.
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There are no bad books any more than there are ugly women.
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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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Armenia is dying, but it will survive. The little blood that it still has left is precious blood that will give birth to a heroic generation. A nation that does not want to die, does not die.
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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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What we call strategy is mainly just crossing rivers on bridges and passing mountains though cols.
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The average man does not know what to do with this life, yet wants another one which will last forever.
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Existence would be intolerable if we were never to dream.
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The good critic is he who relates the adventures of his soul among masterpieces.
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Truth possesses within herself a penetrating force, unknown alike to error and falsehood. I say 'truth' and you understand my meaning. For the beautiful words truth and justice need not to be defined in order to be understood in their true sense.
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It is by believing in roses that you make them bloom.
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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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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 law ... allows rich as well as poor to sleep under bridges.
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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 by acts, and not by ideas, that people ensure the bar down the street cannot have a patio.
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The law in its majesty prohibits rich and poor alike from sleeping under bridges.
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Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness.
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Our passions are ourselves.
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Stupidity is far more dangerous than evil, for evil takes a break from time to time, stupidity does not.
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