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Anatole France

Awaken people’s curiosity. It is enough to open minds, do not overload them. Put there just a spark.
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Enough Mindset People
In art as in love, instinct is enough.
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Art Enough Love
When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
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Talk Word
It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
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Act Ideas Live People
If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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Fools People Truth
Determination. To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream. Not only plan, but also believe.
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Accomplishment Act Believe Determination Dream Planning
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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Book Library Myself People
Yet, every now and then, there would pass a young girl, slender, fair and desirable, arousing in young men a not ignoble desire to possess her, and stirring in old men regrets for ecstasy not seized and now forever past.
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Desire Forever Man Past Regret Young
Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened.
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Animal Love Oneself Soul
Stupidity is far more dangerous than evil, for evil takes a break from time to time, stupidity does not.
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Break Danger Evil Stupidity Time
If 50 million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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Fools People
Man is a rational animal. He can think up a reason for anything he wants to believe.
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Animal Believe Himself Logic Man Thinking
Of all sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.
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Sex Strange
The wonder is, not that the field of stars is so vast, but that man has measured it.
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Deep Man Stars
As to the kind of truth one finds in books, it is a truth that enables us sometimes to discern what things are not, without ever enabling us to discover what they are.
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Discover Kind Truth
To accomplish great things we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
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Accomplishment Act Believe Dream Greatness Planning

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