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French Novelist, Writer April 16, 1844 – October 12, 1924

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I awaited Signor Polizzi's reply with ill-contained impatience. I could not even remain quiet; I would make sudden nervous gestures - open books and violent close them again. One day I happened to upset a book with my elbow - a volume of Morri. Hamilcar, who was washing himself, suddenly stopped, and looked angrily at me, with his paw over his ear. Was this the tumultuous existence he must expect under my roof? Had there not been a tacit understanding between us that we should live a peaceful... Anatole France
I have always preferred the folly of the passions to the wisdom of indifference. But just because my own passions are not of that sort which burst out with violence to devastate and kill, the common mind is not aware of their existence. Nevertheless, I am greatly moved by them at times, and it has more than once been my fate to lose my sleep for the sake of a few pages written by some forgotten monk or printed by some humble apprentice of Peter Schffer. And if these fierce enthusiasms are... Anatole France
This book bore the label R>3214 VIII/2. And this painful truth was suddenly borne in upon the mind of Monsieur Sariette: to wit, that the most scientific system of numbering will not help to find a book if the book is no longer in its place. Anatole France
Anatole France quote: "We have never heard the devil's side of the story, God wrote..."
We have never heard the devil's side of the story, God wrote all the book. Anatole France
Anatole France quote: "History books that contain no lies are extremely dull."
History books that contain no lies are extremely dull. Anatole France
Anatole France quote: "The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads."
The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads. Anatole France
Anatole France quote: "Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books..."
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. Anatole France
Anatole France quote: "Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books..."
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. Anatole France

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