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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 minds of different generations are as impenetrable one by the other as are the monads of Leibniz.
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The clear and simple words of common usage are always better than those of erudition. The jargon of the philosophers not seldom conceals an absence of thought.
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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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No one can be profoundly original who does not avoid eccentricity.
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Lost Illusion is the undisclosed title of every novel.
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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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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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The need to express one's self in writing springs from a maladjustment of life, or from an inner conflict which the adolescent (or the grown man) cannot resolve in action.
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One has very little influence upon one's children. Their characters are what they are and one can do nothing to change them.
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To feminine eyes a man's prestige, or his fame, envelops him in a luminous haze which obscures his faults. The triumphs of an aviator, an actor, a football player, an orator are often responsible for the beginning of a love affair.
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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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An unsatisfied woman requires luxury, but a woman who is in love with a man will lie on a board.
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It is better to teach a few things perfectly than many things indifferently...
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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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Learning is nothing without cultivated manners, but when the two are combined in a woman, you have one of the most exquisite products of civilization.
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To reason with poorly chosen words is like using a pair of scales with inaccurate weights.
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British conversation is like a game of cricket or a boxing match personal allusions are forbidden like hitting below the belt, and anyone who loses his temper is disqualified.
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There are certain persons for whom pure Truth is a poison.
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A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.
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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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