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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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Nothing spoils a confession like repentance.
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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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There is only one science, love, one riches, love, only one policy, love. To make love is all the law and the prophets.
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Irony and pity are two good counselors: one, in smiling, makes life pleasurable the other, who cries, makes it sacred.
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If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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We chase dreams and embrace shadows.
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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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Until you have loved an animal, part of your soul will have remained dormant.
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Our passions are ourselves.
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In its majestic equality, the law forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, beg in the streets and steal loaves of bread.
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Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.
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Lack of understanding is a great power. Sometimes it enables men to conquer the world.
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The best sentence? The shortest.
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That child whose mother has never smiled upon him is worthy neither of the table of the gods nor the couch of the goddesses.
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Unhappiness does make people look stupid.
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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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God forbids suicide, and is unwilling that his creatures should destroy themselves.
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He flattered himself on being a man without any prejudices and this pretension itself is a very great prejudice.
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It is remarkable how great an influence our clothes have on our moral state.
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You think you are dying for your country you die for the industrialists.
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