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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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Jacques François-Anatole Thibault
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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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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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Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.
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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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A good critic is the man who describes his adventures among masterpieces.
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Play is hand-to-hand encounter with Fate.
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Devout believers are safeguarded in a high degree against the risk of certain neurotic illnesses their acceptance of the universal neurosis spares them the task of constructing a personal one.
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Word-carpentry is like any other kind of carpentry: you must join your sentences smoothly.
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All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves we must die to one life before we can enter another.
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Dictionary: The universe in alphabetical order.
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The Kingdom of Heaven is a military autocracy and there is no public opinion in it.
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An old philosopher said to Monsieur Coignard, a Reverend Father: 'You are a pig!' To which Abad Coignard answered: 'You flatter me, sir. But unfortunately, I'm only a man.'
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When a thing has been said and well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
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Intelligent women always marry fools
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In art as in love, instinct is enough.
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Until one has loved an animal a part of one's soul remains unawakened.
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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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Ignorance and error are necessary to life, like bread and water.
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Good angels are fallible ... they sin every day and fall from Heaven like flies.
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It is remarkable how great an influence our clothes have on our moral state.
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