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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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To die for an idea is to set a rather high price upon conjecture.
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If it were absolutely necessary to choose, I would rather be guilty of an immoral act than of a cruel one.
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For every monarchy overthrown the sky becomes less brilliant, because it loses a star. A republic is ugliness set free.
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In order that knowledge be properly digested it must have been swallowed with a good appetite.
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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.
Anatole France
What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster!
Anatole France
What men call civilization is the condition of present customs what they call barbarism, the condition of past ones.
Anatole France
The impotence of God is infinite.
Anatole France
Stupidity is far more dangerous than evil, for evil takes a break from time to time, stupidity does not.
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Never lend books, for no one ever returns them
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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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We live between two dense clouds the forgetting of what was and the uncertainty of what will be.
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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.
Anatole France
Christianity has done a great deal for love by making a sin of it.
Anatole France
Men are not created to know, men are not created to understand ... and our illusions increase with our knowledge.
Anatole France
There are very honest people who do not think that they have had a bargain unless they have cheated a merchant.
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The Future is hidden even from those who are forging it.
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It's not by amusing oneself that one learns.
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When a history book contains no lies it is always tedious.
Anatole France
The Kingdom of Heaven is a military autocracy and there is no public opinion in it.
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