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The average man, who does not know what to do with his life, wants another one which will last forever.
Anatole FranceAbout author
- Author's profession: Novelist, Writer
- Nationality: french
- Born: April 16, 1844
- Died: October 12, 1924
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But it's precisely in this cold, loathsome half-despair, half-belief, in this deliberate burying of yourself underground for forty years out of sheer pain, in this assiduously constructed, and yet somewhat dubious hopelessness, in all this poision of unfulfilled desires turned inward, this fever of vacillations, of resolutions adopted for eternity, and of repentances a moment later that you find the very essence of that strange, sharp pleasure.
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