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Anatole France
Age: 80 †
Born: 1844
Born: April 16
Died: 1924
Died: October 12
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It is remarkable how great an influence our clothes have on our moral state.
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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 mania of thinking renders one unfit for every activity.
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To imagine is everything, to know is nothing at all.
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The wonder is, not that the field of stars is so vast, but that man has measured it.
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The finest words in the world are only vain sounds if you can't understand them. The best sentence? The shortest.
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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 the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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The more you say, the less they remember.
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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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Chance is the pseudonym God uses when He'd rather not sign His own name.
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It is not customary to love what one has.
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Of all the sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.
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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 good critic is he who relates the adventures of his soul among masterpieces.
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You think you are dying for your country you die for the industrialists.
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A simple style is like white light. Although complex, it does not appear to be so.
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The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.
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A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance. [The ability to focus on positives and distract your mind from negatives for at least a time is a necessary skill for being happy.]
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Universal peace will be realized, not because man will become better, but because a new order of things, a new science, new economic necessities, will impose peace.
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