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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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Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.
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In truth man is made rather to eat ices than to pore over old texts.
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The Arab who built himself a hut with marbles from the temple of Palmyra is more philosophical than all the curators of the museums of London, Paris, and Munich.
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You think you are dying for your country you die for the industrialists.
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Sometimes one day in a difference place gives you more than ten years of a life at home.
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Religion has done love a great service by making it a sin.
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What frightens us most in a madman is his sane conversation.
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The truth is that life is delicious, horrible, charming, frightful, sweet, bitter, and that is everything.
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Ignorance and error are necessary to life, like bread and water.
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He flattered himself on being a man without any prejudices and this pretension itself is a very great prejudice.
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Until you have loved an animal, part of your soul will have remained dormant.
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Do not try to satisfy your vanity by teaching a great many things. Awaken people's curiosity. It is enough to open minds do not overload them. Put there just a spark. If there is some good inflammable stuff, it will catch fire.
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Chance is the pseudonym God uses when He'd rather not sign His own name.
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Truth possesses within herself a penetrating force, unknown alike to error and falsehood. I say 'truth' and you understand my meaning. For the beautiful words truth and justice need not to be defined in order to be understood in their true sense.
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The mania of thinking renders one unfit for every activity.
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It is almost impossible systematically to constitute a natural moral law. Nature has no principles. She furnishes us with no reason to believe that human life is to be respected. Nature, in her indifference, makes no distinction between good and evil.
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An education which does not cultivate the will is an education that depraves the mind.
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It is better to understand little than to misunderstand a lot.
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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 perhaps the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.
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