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Anatole France (120)

Birth:	16th April, 1844
Death:	12th October, 1924
Nationality:	French
Profession:	Journalist, Novelist, Poet

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• It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.

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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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  If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.

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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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• An education isn’t how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It’s being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don’t.

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• Of all the sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.

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• To imagine is everything, to know is nothing at all.

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• Ignorance and error are necessary to life, like bread and water.

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• A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.

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• In art as in love, instinct is enough.

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• Silence is the wit of fools.

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• If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.

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• What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster!

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• If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.

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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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• Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.

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• It is better to understand a little than to misunderstand a lot.

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• Simple style is like white light. It is complex, but its complexity is not obvious.

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• The poor have to labour in the face of the majestic equality of the law, which forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.

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• It is only the poor who pay cash, and that not from virtue, but because they are refused credit.

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