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The impotence of God is infinite.
Anatole France
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Anatole France
Age: 80 †
Born: 1844
Born: April 16
Died: 1924
Died: October 12
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Jealousy is a virtue of democracies which preserves them from tyrants.
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Custom alone regulates morals.
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It is not customary to love what one has.
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I cling to my imperfection, as the very essence of my being.
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Lack of understanding is a great power. Sometimes it enables men to conquer the world.
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It is by believing in roses that you make them bloom.
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The Arab who built himself a hut with marbles from the temple of Palmyra is more philosophical than all the curators of the museums of London, Paris, and Munich.
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In art as in love, instinct is enough.
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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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Suffering... We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.
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Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.
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