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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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Critic
Librarian
Literary Critic
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Science Fiction Writer
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Paris
France
Jacques François-Anatole Thibault
François-Anatole Thibault
Anatole Thibault
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Catalogues
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I thank fate for having made me born poor. Poverty taught me the true value of the gifts useful to life.
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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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Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.
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There are very honest people who do not think that they have had a bargain unless they have cheated a merchant.
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Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness.
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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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What men call civilization is the condition of present customs what they call barbarism, the condition of past ones.
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Never lend books, for no one ever returns them
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A good critic is the man who describes his adventures among masterpieces.
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The more you say, the less they remember.
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Sometimes one day in a difference place gives you more than ten years of a life at home.
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Existence would be intolerable if we were never to dream.
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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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