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Anatole France
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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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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.
Anatole France
You think you are dying for your country you die for the industrialists.
Anatole France
Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness.
Anatole France
What men call civilization is the condition of present customs what they call barbarism, the condition of past ones.
Anatole France
What we call strategy is mainly just crossing rivers on bridges and passing mountains though cols.
Anatole France
For the majority of people , though they do not know what to do with this life , long for another that shall have no end .
Anatole France
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.
Anatole France
Devout believers are safeguarded in a high degree against the risk of certain neurotic illnesses their acceptance of the universal neurosis spares them the task of constructing a personal one.
Anatole France
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.
Anatole France
A woman without breasts is like a bed without pillows.
Anatole France
It is remarkable how great an influence our clothes have on our moral state.
Anatole France
You become a good writer just as you become a good joiner: by planing down your sentences.
Anatole France
A simple style is like white light. Although complex, it does not appear to be so.
Anatole France
Silence is the wit of fools.
Anatole France
Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.
Anatole France
The law in its majesty prohibits rich and poor alike from sleeping under bridges.
Anatole France
Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom.
Anatole France
The future is a convenient place for dreams.
Anatole France
I cling to my imperfection, as the very essence of my being.
Anatole France
Ignorance and error are necessary to life, like bread and water.
Anatole France