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Men are not created to know, men are not created to understand ... and our illusions increase with our knowledge.
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 simple style is like white light. Although complex, it does not appear to be so.
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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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The more you say, the less they remember.
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Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.
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The heart errs like the head its errors are not any the less fatal, and we have more trouble getting free of them because of their sweetness.
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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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Of all the sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.
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The first virtue of all really great men is that they are sincere. They eradicate hypocrisy from their hearts.
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In truth man is made rather to eat ices than to pore over old texts.
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We thank God for having created this world, and praise Him for having made another, quite different one, where the wrongs of this one are corrected.
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I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
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The man of science multiples the points of contact between man and nature.
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