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Andre Maurois
Age: 82 †
Born: 1885
Born: July 26
Died: 1967
Died: October 7
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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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Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment.
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No one can be profoundly original who does not avoid eccentricity.
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Medicine is a very old joke, but it still goes on.
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A great writer has a high respect for values. His essential function is to raise life to the dignity of thought, and this he does by giving it a shape.
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Housekeeping in common is for women the acid test.
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Happiness is never there to stay [...] Happiness is merely a respite offered by inquietude.
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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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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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Men and women are not born inconstant: they are made so by their early amorous experiences.
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The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.
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Live as if you were eternal.
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Art is an effort to create, beside the real world, a more humane world.
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Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us.
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If, in New York, you arrive late for an appointment, say, I took a taxi.
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A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.
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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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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.
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Advice is always a confession.
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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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