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There are no bad books any more than there are ugly women.
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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The finest words in the world are only vain sounds if you can't understand them. The best sentence? The shortest.
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We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
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A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance. [The ability to focus on positives and distract your mind from negatives for at least a time is a necessary skill for being happy.]
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It is well for the heart to be naive and for the mind not to be.
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War will disappear only when men shall take no part whatever in violence and shall be ready to suffer every persecution that their abstention will bring them. It is the only way to abolish war.
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What we call happiness is what we do not know.
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The man of science multiples the points of contact between man and nature.
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Word-carpentry is like any other kind of carpentry: you must join your sentences smoothly.
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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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Nothing spoils a confession like repentance.
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It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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Innocence most often is a good fortune and not a virtue.
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Existence would be intolerable if we were never to dream.
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We reproach people for talking about themselves but it is the subject they treat best.
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Good angels are fallible ... they sin every day and fall from Heaven like flies.
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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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An education which does not cultivate the will is an education that depraves the mind.
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What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster!
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In art as in love, instinct is enough.
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If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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