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It is restful to leave one's home not because traveling does not entail varied and difficult daily actions, but because it removes our responsibilities.
Andre Maurois
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It is not events and the things one sees and enjoys that produce happiness, but a state of mind which can endow events with its own quality, and we must hope for the duration of this state rather than the recurrence of pleasurable events.
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Time is a factor in all action. An imperfect scheme put into action at the proper time is better than a perfect one accomplished too late.
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Like a bird, when his cage is opened, stays on his perch, dazzled by freedom, the postponed traveler does not see that his cage, with its bars of anxiety, it is open.
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Writing is a difficult trade which must be learned slowly by reading great authors by trying at the outset to imitate them by daring then to be original by destroying one's first productions.
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He who wants to do everything will never do anything.
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Inspiration in matters of taste will not come twice.
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If you create a character, you create a destiny.
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Housekeeping in common is for women the acid test.
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A man cannot free himself from the past more easily than he can from his own body.
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When you become used to never being alone, you may consider yourself Americanised
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Our minds have unbelievable power over our bodies.
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A great biography should, like the close of a great drama, leave behind it a feeling of serenity. We collect into a small bunch the flowers, the few flowers, which brought sweetness into a life, and present it as an offering to an accomplished destiny. It is the dying refrain of a completed song, the final verse of a finished poem.
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Men fear silence as they fear solitude, because both give them a glimpse of the terror of life's nothingness.
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Art is an effort to create, beside the real world, a more humane world.
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Everything that is in agreement with our personal desires seems true everything that is not puts us in a rage.
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The reading of a fine book is an uninterrupted dialogue in which the book speaks and our soul replies.
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The really great novel tends to be the exact negative of its author's life.
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If you value a man's regard, strive with him. As to liking, you like your newspaper - and despise it.
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To be witty is not enough. One must possess sufficient wit to avoid having too much of it.
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Men and women are not born inconstant: they are made so by their early amorous experiences.
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The difficult part in an argument is not to defend one's opinion but rather to know it.
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Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know.
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We appreciate frankness from those who like us. Frankness from others is called insolence.
Andre Maurois
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