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Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold.
Andre Maurois
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Andre Maurois
Age: 82 †
Born: 1885
Born: July 26
Died: 1967
Died: October 7
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Men and women are not born inconstant: they are made so by their early amorous experiences.
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There are very few really brilliant men who have not had at least one madman among their ancestors.
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Often we allow ourselves to be upset by small things we should despise and forget. We lose many irreplaceable hours brooding over grievances that, in a year's time, will be forgotten by us and by everybody. No, let us devote our life to worthwhile actions and feelings, to great thoughts, real affections and enduring undertakings.
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It is often said that in prosperity we have many friends, but that we are usually neglected when things go badly. I disagree. Not only do malicious people flock about us in order to witness our ruin, but other unfortunates as well, who have been kept away by our happiness, and now feel close to us on account of our troubles.
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If men could regard the events of their own lives with more open minds, they would frequently discover that they did not really desire the things they failed to obtain.
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Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us.
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Almost all great writers have as their motif, more or less disguised, the passage from childhood to maturity, the clash between the thrill of expectation and the disillusioning knowledge of truth. 'Lost Illusion' is the undisclosed title of every novel.
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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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The difficult part in an argument is not to defend one's opinion but rather to know it.
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In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
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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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The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.
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If you create a character, you create a destiny.
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I knew a man who had been virtually drowned and then revived. He said that his death had not been painful.
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A great man's manias must be respected, because the time required to combat them is too precious to waste.
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We console ourselves with several friends for not having found one real one.
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Happiness is never there to stay [...] Happiness is merely a respite offered by inquietude.
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