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Anatole France
Age: 80 †
Born: 1844
Born: April 16
Died: 1924
Died: October 12
Biographer
Critic
Librarian
Literary Critic
Novelist
Poet
Prosaist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Paris
France
Jacques François-Anatole Thibault
François-Anatole Thibault
Anatole Thibault
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I cling to my imperfection, as the very essence of my being.
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The future is a convenient place for dreams.
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It is well for the heart to be naive and for the mind not to be.
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No government ought to be without censors and where the press is free, no one ever will. Chance is the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.
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Nine tenths of education is encouragement.
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Silence is the wit of fools.
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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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It is human nature to think wisely and to act in an absurd fashion.
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One thing above all gives charm to men's thoughts, and this is unrest. A mind that is not uneasy irritates and bores me.
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Until you have loved an animal, part of your soul will have remained dormant.
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It is good to collect things, but it is better to go on walks.
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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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Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.
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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.
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Religion has done love a great service by making it a sin.
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It is by believing in roses that you make them bloom.
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The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
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The good critic is he who relates the adventures of his soul among masterpieces.
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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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I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
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