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Anatole France
Age: 80 †
Born: 1844
Born: April 16
Died: 1924
Died: October 12
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Until one has loved an animal a part of one's soul remains unawakened.
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It is well for the heart to be naive and for the mind not to be.
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It is in the ability to deceive oneself that the greatest talent is shown.
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Our passions are ourselves.
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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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A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
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The Future is hidden even from those who are forging it.
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Distrust even Mathematics albeit so sublime and highly perfected, we have here a machine of such delicacy it can only work in vacuo, and one grain of sand in the wheels is enough to put everything out of gear. One shudders to think to what disaster such a grain of sand may bring a Mathematical brain. Remember Pascal.
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A simple style is like white light. Although complex, it does not appear to be so.
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Of all the ways of defining man, the worst is the one which makes him out to be a rational animal.
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What frightens us most in a madman is his sane conversation.
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The more you say, the less they remember.
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An education which does not cultivate the will is an education that depraves the mind.
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The good critic is he who relates the adventures of his soul among masterpieces.
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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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Intelligent women always marry fools
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Never lend books, for no one ever returns them
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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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All the good writers of confessions, from Augustine onwards, are men who are still a little in love with their sins.
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Existence would be intolerable if we were never to dream.
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