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Anatole France
Age: 80 †
Born: 1844
Born: April 16
Died: 1924
Died: October 12
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A good critic is the man who describes his adventures among masterpieces.
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The good critic is he who relates the adventures of his soul among masterpieces.
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History books that contain no lies are extremely dull.
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An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't.
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The duty of literature is to note what counts, and to light up what is suited to the light. If it ceases to choose and to love, it becomes like a woman who gives herself without preference.
Anatole France
The truth is that life is delicious, horrible, charming, frightful, sweet, bitter, and that is everything.
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Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.
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Those who have given themselves the most concern about the happiness of peoples have made their neighbors very miserable.
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Dictionary: The universe in alphabetical order.
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What we call happiness is what we do not know.
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The impotence of God is infinite.
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What men call civilization is the condition of present customs what they call barbarism, the condition of past ones.
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Yet, every now and then, there would pass a young girl, slender, fair and desirable, arousing in young men a not ignoble desire to possess her, and stirring in old men regrets for ecstasy not seized and now forever past.
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It is by acts, and not by ideas, that people ensure the bar down the street cannot have a patio.
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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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It is only the poor who pay cash, and that not from virtue, but because they are refused credit.
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The best sentence? The shortest.
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Custom alone regulates morals.
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Justice is the sanction of established injustice.
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In truth man is made rather to eat ices than to pore over old texts.
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