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There are no bad books any more than there are ugly women.

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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
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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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Chance is the pseudonym God uses when He'd rather not sign His own name.
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Jealousy is a virtue of democracies which preserves them from tyrants.
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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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A tale without love is like beef without mustard: insipid.
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God forbids suicide, and is unwilling that his creatures should destroy themselves.
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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.
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