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Anatole France

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Biography - Anatole France:

French poet, journalist and novelist.
Born: 1844 - Died: 1924
Period:
20th century
19th century
Place of birth: France
France

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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That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future.





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.





In art as in love, instinct is enough.





As we get older, we realise that the rarest courage is that of thinking.





I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.





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












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