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Caress your phrase tenderly it will end by smiling at you.
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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Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness.
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We reproach people for talking about themselves but it is the subject they treat best.
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Christianity has done a great deal for love by making a sin of it.
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Our passions are ourselves.
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To die for an idea is to set a rather high price upon conjecture.
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Nine tenths of education is encouragement.
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To imagine is everything, to know is nothing at all.
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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 remarkable how great an influence our clothes have on our moral state.
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The mania of thinking renders one unfit for every activity.
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God, conquered, will become Satan Satan, conquering, will become God. May the fates spare me this terrible lot I love the Hell which formed my genius. I love the Earth where I have done some good, if it be possible to do any good in this fearful world where beings live but by rapine.
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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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Jealousy is a virtue of democracies which preserves them from tyrants.
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That child whose mother has never smiled upon him is worthy neither of the table of the gods nor the couch of the goddesses.
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Devout believers are safeguarded in a high degree against the risk of certain neurotic illnesses their acceptance of the universal neurosis spares them the task of constructing a personal one.
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Of all the sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.
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An education which does not cultivate the will is an education that depraves the mind.
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A writer is rarely so well inspired as when he talks about himself.
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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.
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Silence is the wit of fools.
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