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There is only one science, love, one riches, love, only one policy, love. To make love is all the law and the prophets.

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Anatole France
Age: 80 †
Born: 1844
Born: April 16
Died: 1924
Died: October 12
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Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.
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An old philosopher said to Monsieur Coignard, a Reverend Father: 'You are a pig!' To which Abad Coignard answered: 'You flatter me, sir. But unfortunately, I'm only a man.'
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Armenia is dying, but it will survive. The little blood that it still has left is precious blood that will give birth to a heroic generation. A nation that does not want to die, does not die.
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Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness.
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Never lend books, for no one ever returns them the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have left me.
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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.
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All the good writers of confessions, from Augustine onwards, are men who are still a little in love with their sins.
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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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God, conquered, will become Satan Satan, conquering, will become God. May the fates spare me this terrible lot I love the Hell which formed my genius. I love the Earth where I have done some good, if it be possible to do any good in this fearful world where beings live but by rapine.
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