“The truth is that life is delicious, horrible, charming, frightful, sweet, bitter, and that is everything.”
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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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“The truth is that life is delicious, horrible, charming, frightful, sweet, bitter, and that is everything.”
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“Of all the sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.”
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“When a thing has been said and well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.”
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“An education which does not cultivate the will is an education that depraves the mind.”
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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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“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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“Nature has no principles. She makes no distinction between good and evil.”
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“The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself a fool.”
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“History books that contain no lies are extremely dull.”
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“Nine tenths of education is encouragement.”
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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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“Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom.”
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“Innocence most often is a good fortune and not a virtue.”
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“Religion has done love a great service by making it a sin.”
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“Existence would be intolerable if we were never to dream.”
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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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“Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness.”
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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 a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.”
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