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The Future is hidden even from those who are forging it.
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
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It is remarkable how great an influence our clothes have on our moral state.
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Ugly women may be naturally quite as capricious as pretty ones but as they are never petted and spoiled, and as no allowances are made for them, they soon find themselves obliged either to suppress their whims or to hide them.
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A woman without breasts is like a bed without pillows.
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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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In truth man is made rather to eat ices than to pore over old texts.
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There are no bad books any more than there are ugly women.
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Caress your phrase tenderly it will end by smiling at you.
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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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You become a good writer just as you become a good joiner: by planing down your sentences.
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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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Armenia is dying, but it will survive. The little blood that it still has left is precious blood that will give birth to a heroic generation. A nation that does not want to die, does not die.
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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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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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Of all earthly creatures, humans alone have the power to choose. One must never lose time in vainly regretting the past nor in complaining about the changes which cause us discomfort, for change is the very essence of life.
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Distrust even Mathematics albeit so sublime and highly perfected, we have here a machine of such delicacy it can only work in vacuo, and one grain of sand in the wheels is enough to put everything out of gear. One shudders to think to what disaster such a grain of sand may bring a Mathematical brain. Remember Pascal.
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What we call strategy is mainly just crossing rivers on bridges and passing mountains though cols.
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An education which does not cultivate the will is an education that depraves the mind.
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I do not know any reading more easy, more fascinating, more delightful than a catalogue.
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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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The future is a convenient place for dreams.
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