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Anatole France
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Anatole France
Age: 80 †
Born: 1844
Born: April 16
Died: 1924
Died: October 12
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In every well-governed state wealth is a sacred thing in democracies it is the only sacred thing.
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The impotence of God is infinite.
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Until one has loved an animal a part of one's soul remains unawakened.
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A woman without breasts is like a bed without pillows.
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Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.
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Christianity has done a great deal for love by making a sin of it.
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Our passions are ourselves.
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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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The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.
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The law ... allows rich as well as poor to sleep under bridges.
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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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It is well for the heart to be naive and for the mind not to be.
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What frightens us most in a madman is his sane conversation.
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Without the Utopians of other times, men would still live in caves, miserable and naked. It was Utopians who traced the lines of the first City.....Out of generous dreams come beneficial realities. Utopia is the principle of all progress, and the essay into a better future.
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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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The wonder is, not that the field of stars is so vast, but that man has measured it.
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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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There are no bad books any more than there are ugly women.
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Do not try to satisfy your vanity by teaching a great many things. Awaken people's curiosity. It is enough to open minds do not overload them. Put there just a spark. If there is some good inflammable stuff, it will catch fire.
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Yet, every now and then, there would pass a young girl, slender, fair and desirable, arousing in young men a not ignoble desire to possess her, and stirring in old men regrets for ecstasy not seized and now forever past.
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