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Anatole France on Retirement

1844–1924 France

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Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard (1881)

It was one of the deadliest and heaviest feelings of my life to feel that I was no longer a boy. From that moment I began to grow old in my own esteem — and in my esteem age is not estimable.

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