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It's not by amusing oneself that one learns.
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
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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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It is almost impossible systematically to constitute a natural moral law. Nature has no principles. She furnishes us with no reason to believe that human life is to be respected. Nature, in her indifference, makes no distinction between good and evil.
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It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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History books that contain no lies are extremely dull.
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The future is a convenient place for dreams.
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The Future is hidden even from those who are forging it.
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All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves we must die to one life before we can enter another.
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Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.
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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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The average man does not know what to do with this life, yet wants another one which will last forever.
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I cling to my imperfection, as the very essence of my being.
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Ignorance and error are necessary to life, like bread and water.
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Nature, in her indifference, makes no distinction between good and evil.
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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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In its majestic equality, the law forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, beg in the streets and steal loaves of bread.
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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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It is good to collect things, but it is better to go on walks.
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The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.
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The truth is that life is delicious, horrible, charming, frightful, sweet, bitter, and that is everything.
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I thank fate for having made me born poor. Poverty taught me the true value of the gifts useful to life.
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