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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
François-Anatole Thibault
Anatole Thibault
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All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves we must die to one life before we can enter another.
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The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.
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Dog! When we first met on the highway of life, we came from the two poles of creation.... What can be the meaning of the obscure love for me that has sprung up in your heart?
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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.
Anatole France
Only men who are not interested in women are interested in women's clothes. Men who like women never notice what they wear.
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Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom.
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Existence would be intolerable if we were never to dream.
Anatole France
To imagine is everything, to know is nothing at all.
Anatole France
A simple style is like white light. Although complex, it does not appear to be so.
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Ignorance and error are necessary to life, like bread and water.
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Of all the sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.
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We chase dreams and embrace shadows.
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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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The man of science multiples the points of contact between man and nature.
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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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The dog is a religious animal. In his savage state he worships the moon and the lights that float upon the waters. These are his gods to whom he appeals at night with long-drawn howls.
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The Future is hidden even from those who are forging it.
Anatole France
I ought not to fear to survive my own people so long as there are men in the world for there are always some whom one can love.
Anatole France
In truth man is made rather to eat ices than to pore over old texts.
Anatole France
Time deals gently only with those who take it gently.
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