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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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Custom alone regulates morals.
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In art as in love, instinct is enough.
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Awaken people's curiosity. It is enough to open minds, do not overload them. Put there just a spark.
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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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You think you are dying for your country you die for the industrialists.
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A simple style is like white light. Although complex, it does not appear to be so.
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So long as society is founded on injustice, the function of the laws will be to defend injustice. And the more unjust they are the more respectable they will seem.
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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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We chase dreams and embrace shadows.
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Until you have loved an animal, part of your soul will have remained dormant.
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We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
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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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Of all the sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.
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Man is a rational animal. He can think up a reason for anything he wants to believe.
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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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It is not customary to love what one has.
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When a thing has been said and well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
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Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.
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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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It is by acts, and not by ideas, that people ensure the bar down the street cannot have a patio.
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