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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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Ugly women may be naturally quite as capricious as pretty ones but as they are never petted and spoiled, and as no allowances are made for them, they soon find themselves obliged either to suppress their whims or to hide them.
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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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To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream not only plan, but also believe.
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Nature, in her indifference, makes no distinction between good and evil.
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Intelligent women always marry fools
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Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.
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People who don't count won't count.
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That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future.
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There is a certain impertinence in allowing oneself to be burned for an opinion.
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What frightens us most in a madman is his sane conversation.
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Change is the essence of life.
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Good angels are fallible ... they sin every day and fall from Heaven like flies.
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The law ... allows rich as well as poor to sleep under bridges.
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A dictionary is merely the universe arranged in alphabetical order.
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Of all the ways of defining man, the worst is the one which makes him out to be a rational animal.
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In its majestic equality, the law forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, beg in the streets and steal loaves of bread.
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Nothing spoils a confession like repentance.
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All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves we must die to one life before we can enter another.
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A simple style is like white light. Although complex, it does not appear to be so.
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I do not know any reading more easy, more fascinating, more delightful than a catalogue.
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