“It is possible that these millions of suns, along with thousands of millions more we cannot see, make up altogether but a globule of blood or lymph in the veins of an animal, of a minute ins...”
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Anatole France was born François-Anatole Thibault in Paris, the son of a bookseller. His father's bookstore, Librairie France, specialized in books and papers on the French Revolution and was frequented by many notable writers and scholars of the day. Anatole France studied at the Collège Stanislas and went to work with his father after his graduation. After several years he became a cataloguer at Bacheline-Deflorenne and at Lemerre. He began his career as a poet and a journalist. In 1876 he was appointed a librarian for the French Senate. He became famous with the novel Le Crime de Sylvestre Bonnard (1881), which won a prize from the French Academy. He was elected to the Académie française in 1896. In the 1920s, his writings were put on the Index Librorum Prohibitorum (Prohibited Books Index) of the Roman Catholic Church. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1921.
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“It is possible that these millions of suns, along with thousands of millions more we cannot see, make up altogether but a globule of blood or lymph in the veins of an animal, of a minute ins...”
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“We have never heard the devil's side of the story, God wrote all the book.”
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“Epicure a dit: ou Dieu veut empêcher le mal et ne le peut, ou il le peut et ne le veut, ou il ne le peut ni ne le veut, ou il le veut et le peut. S'il le veut et ne le peut, il est impuissan...”
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“It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.”
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“The average man, who does not know what to do with his life, wants another one which will last forever.”
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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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“Science neither cares to please nor to displease. She is inhuman. It is not science but poetry that charms and consoles. And that is why poetry is more necessary than science.”
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“They did not understand that war, which trained courage and founded the cities of barbarous and ignorant men, brings to victor himself but ruin and misery, and is nothing but a horrible and...”
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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 lent me.”
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“The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.”
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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 w...”
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“Devout believers are safeguarded in a high degree against the risk of certain neurotic illnesses; their acceptance of the universal neurosis spares them the task of constructing a personal o...”
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“The good critic is he who relates the adventures of his soul among masterpieces.”
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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 whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.”
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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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“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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“Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.”
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“One thing above all gives charm to men's thoughts, and this is unrest. A mind that is not uneasy irritates and bores me.”
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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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