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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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Time deals gently only with those who take it gently.
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Until you have loved an animal, part of your soul will have remained dormant.
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It is not customary to love what one has.
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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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Of all the ways of defining man, the worst is the one which makes him out to be a rational animal.
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Until one has loved an animal a part of one's soul remains unawakened.
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War will disappear only when men shall take no part whatever in violence and shall be ready to suffer every persecution that their abstention will bring them. It is the only way to abolish war.
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Custom alone regulates morals.
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Suffering... We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.
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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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Nothing spoils a confession like repentance.
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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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You think you are dying for your country you die for the industrialists.
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Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.
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For the majority of people , though they do not know what to do with this life , long for another that shall have no end .
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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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The wonder is, not that the field of stars is so vast, but that man has measured it.
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Nine tenths of education is encouragement.
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We have never heard the devil's side of the story, God wrote all the book.
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Distrust even Mathematics albeit so sublime and highly perfected, we have here a machine of such delicacy it can only work in vacuo, and one grain of sand in the wheels is enough to put everything out of gear. One shudders to think to what disaster such a grain of sand may bring a Mathematical brain. Remember Pascal.
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