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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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The Future is hidden even from those who are forging it.
Anatole France
Never lend books, for no one ever returns them
Anatole France
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.
Anatole France
What frightens us most in a madman is his sane conversation.
Anatole France
Justice is the means by which established injustices are sanctioned
Anatole France
One thing above all gives charm to men's thoughts, and this is unrest. A mind that is not uneasy irritates and bores me.
Anatole France
Human affairs inspire in noble hearts only two feelings-admiration or pity.
Anatole France
If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.
Anatole France
Nothing spoils a confession like repentance.
Anatole France
He flattered himself on being a man without any prejudices and this pretension itself is a very great prejudice.
Anatole France
What we call happiness is what we do not know.
Anatole France
It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
Anatole France
We live between two dense clouds the forgetting of what was and the uncertainty of what will be.
Anatole France
A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Anatole France
Ignorance and error are necessary to life, like bread and water.
Anatole France
Of all earthly creatures, humans alone have the power to choose. One must never lose time in vainly regretting the past nor in complaining about the changes which cause us discomfort, for change is the very essence of life.
Anatole France
Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom.
Anatole France
We reproach people for talking about themselves but it is the subject they treat best.
Anatole France
I cling to my imperfection, as the very essence of my being.
Anatole France
The power of love itself weakens and gradually becomes lost with age, like all the other energies of man.
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