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Anatole France
Age: 80 †
Born: 1844
Born: April 16
Died: 1924
Died: October 12
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Play is hand-to-hand encounter with Fate.
Anatole France
A tale without love is like beef without mustard: insipid.
Anatole France
Truth possesses within herself a penetrating force, unknown alike to error and falsehood. I say 'truth' and you understand my meaning. For the beautiful words truth and justice need not to be defined in order to be understood in their true sense.
Anatole France
Chance is the pseudonym God uses when He'd rather not sign His own name.
Anatole France
The power of love itself weakens and gradually becomes lost with age, like all the other energies of man.
Anatole France
Nine tenths of education is encouragement.
Anatole France
God forbids suicide, and is unwilling that his creatures should destroy themselves.
Anatole France
In its majestic equality, the law forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, beg in the streets and steal loaves of bread.
Anatole France
He flattered himself on being a man without any prejudices and this pretension itself is a very great prejudice.
Anatole France
Sometimes one day in a difference place gives you more than ten years of a life at home.
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There is a certain impertinence in allowing oneself to be burned for an opinion.
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In order that knowledge be properly digested it must have been swallowed with a good appetite.
Anatole France
Men are not created to know, men are not created to understand ... and our illusions increase with our knowledge.
Anatole France
We thank God for having created this world, and praise Him for having made another, quite different one, where the wrongs of this one are corrected.
Anatole France
All the good writers of confessions, from Augustine onwards, are men who are still a little in love with their sins.
Anatole France
Unhappiness does make people look stupid.
Anatole France
It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
Anatole France
When a thing has been said and well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
Anatole France
Only men who are not interested in women are interested in women's clothes. Men who like women never notice what they wear.
Anatole France
It is human nature to think wisely and to act in an absurd fashion.
Anatole France