French - Novelist | April 16, 1844 - October 12, 1924
A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Anatole France
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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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What frightens us most in a madman is his sane conversation.
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There are very honest people who do not think that they have had a bargain unless they have cheated a merchant.
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Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.
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In art as in love, instinct is enough.
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The average man does not know what to do with this life, yet wants another one which will last forever.
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The law, in its majestic equality, 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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Only men who are not interested in women are interested in women's clothes. Men who like women never notice what they wear.
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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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Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.
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To imagine is everything, to know is nothing at all.
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