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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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If it were absolutely necessary to choose, I would rather be guilty of an immoral act than of a cruel one.
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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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Man is a rational animal. He can think up a reason for anything he wants to believe.
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Of all the sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.
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Time deals gently only with those who take it gently.
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We chase dreams and embrace shadows.
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God forbids suicide, and is unwilling that his creatures should destroy themselves.
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The finest words in the world are only vain sounds if you can't understand them. The best sentence? The shortest.
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Dog! When we first met on the highway of life, we came from the two poles of creation.... What can be the meaning of the obscure love for me that has sprung up in your heart?
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A simple style is like white light. Although complex, it does not appear to be so.
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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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Never lend books, for no one ever returns them the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have left me.
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The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.
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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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It is by believing in roses that you make them bloom.
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Existence would be intolerable if we were never to dream.
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