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It is not customary to love what one has.
Anatole France
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Anatole France
Age: 80 †
Born: 1844
Born: April 16
Died: 1924
Died: October 12
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One thing above all gives charm to men's thoughts, and this is unrest. A mind that is not uneasy irritates and bores me.
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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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If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.
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A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance. [The ability to focus on positives and distract your mind from negatives for at least a time is a necessary skill for being happy.]
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Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.
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The dog is a religious animal. In his savage state he worships the moon and the lights that float upon the waters. These are his gods to whom he appeals at night with long-drawn howls.
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The best sentence? The shortest.
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An education which does not cultivate the will is an education that depraves the mind.
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Without the Utopians of other times, men would still live in caves, miserable and naked. It was Utopians who traced the lines of the first City.....Out of generous dreams come beneficial realities. Utopia is the principle of all progress, and the essay into a better future.
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There are no bad books any more than there are ugly women.
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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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Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness.
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The truth is that life is delicious, horrible, charming, frightful, sweet, bitter, and that is everything.
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Our passions are ourselves.
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Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.
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You become a good writer just as you become a good joiner: by planing down your sentences.
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