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Anatole France
Age: 80 †
Born: 1844
Born: April 16
Died: 1924
Died: October 12
Biographer
Critic
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Literary Critic
Novelist
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Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Paris
France
Jacques François-Anatole Thibault
François-Anatole Thibault
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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It is by believing in roses that you make them bloom.
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Universal peace will be realized, not because man will become better, but because a new order of things, a new science, new economic necessities, will impose peace.
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Existence would be intolerable if we were never to dream.
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There is only one science, love, one riches, love, only one policy, love. To make love is all the law and the prophets.
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It is better to understand little than to misunderstand a lot.
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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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Lack of understanding is a great power. Sometimes it enables men to conquer the world.
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Stupidity is far more dangerous than evil, for evil takes a break from time to time, stupidity does not.
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