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I do not know any reading more easy, more fascinating, more delightful than a catalogue.

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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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It is almost impossible systematically to constitute a natural moral law. Nature has no principles. She furnishes us with no reason to believe that human life is to be respected. Nature, in her indifference, makes no distinction between good and evil.
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The faculty of doubting is rare among men. A few choice spirits carry the germs of it in them, but these do not develop without training.
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Play is hand-to-hand encounter with Fate.
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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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Ugly women may be naturally quite as capricious as pretty ones but as they are never petted and spoiled, and as no allowances are made for them, they soon find themselves obliged either to suppress their whims or to hide them.
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It is remarkable how great an influence our clothes have on our moral state.
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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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History books that contain no lies are extremely dull.
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In order that knowledge be properly digested it must have been swallowed with a good appetite.
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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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When a history book contains no lies it is always tedious.
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We chase dreams and embrace shadows.
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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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I am a physician. I keep a drug-shop of lies. I give relief, consolation. Can one console and relieve without lying? ... Only women and doctors know how necessary and how helpful lies are to men.
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It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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The future is a convenient place for dreams.
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Of all the ways of defining man, the worst is the one which makes him out to be a rational animal.
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We have never heard the devil's side of the story, God wrote all the book.
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I cling to my imperfection, as the very essence of my being.
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The average man does not know what to do with this life, yet wants another one which will last forever.
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