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Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know.
Andre Maurois
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Andre Maurois
Age: 82 †
Born: 1885
Born: July 26
Died: 1967
Died: October 7
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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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An old man, having retired from active life, regains the gaity and irresponsibility of childhood. He is ready to play, he cannot run with his son, but he can totter with his grandson. Our first and last steps have the same rhythm.
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Smile, for everyone lacks self-confidence and more than any other one thing a smile reassures them.
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Style is the hallmark of a temperament stamped upon the material at hand.
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Genius consists of equal parts of natural aptitude and hard work.
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Old age diminishes our strength it takes away our pleasures one after the other it withers the soul as well as the body it renders adventure and friendship difficult and finally it is shadowed by thoughts of death.
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If you create a character, you create a destiny.
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No one can be profoundly original who does not avoid eccentricity.
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Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game finished, that the stage belongs to the rising generations. The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul.
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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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A gentleman is never in a hurry.
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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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The minds of different generations are as impenetrable one by the other as are the monads of Leibniz.
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Business is a combination of war and sport.
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Few are they who have never had a chance to achieve happiness- and fewer those who have taken that chance.
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Happiness is never there to stay [...] Happiness is merely a respite offered by inquietude.
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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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Everything that is in agreement with our personal desires seems true everything that is not puts us in a rage.
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There are deserts in every life, and the desert must be depicted if we are to give a fair and complete idea of the country.
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Either the soul is immortal and we shall not die, or it perishes with the flesh and we shall not know that we are dead. Live, then, as if you were eternal.
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