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Anatole France
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Anatole France
Age: 80 †
Born: 1844
Born: April 16
Died: 1924
Died: October 12
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Of all the sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.
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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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The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.
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What we call happiness is what we do not know.
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Our passions are ourselves.
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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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Men are not created to know, men are not created to understand ... and our illusions increase with our knowledge.
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The power of love itself weakens and gradually becomes lost with age, like all the other energies of man.
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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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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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What we call strategy is mainly just crossing rivers on bridges and passing mountains though cols.
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