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Style is the hallmark of a temperament stamped upon the material at hand.
Andre Maurois
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Andre Maurois
Age: 82 †
Born: 1885
Born: July 26
Died: 1967
Died: October 7
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What men call friendship is only social intercourse, an exchange of favours and good offices it comes down to a commercial dealing in which self-esteem always expects to profit.
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Modesty and unselfishness - these are the virtues which men praise - and pass by.
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Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us.
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A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.
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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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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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Experience is valuable only when it has brought suffering and when the suffering has left its mark upon both body and mind.
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Happiness is never there to stay [...] Happiness is merely a respite offered by inquietude.
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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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People are what you make them. A scornful look turns into a complete fool a man of average intelligence. A contemptuous indifference turns into an enemy a woman who, well treated, might have been an angel.
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Advice is always a confession.
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Business is a combination of war and sport.
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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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A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.
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Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form.
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If you create an act, you create a habit. If you create a habit, you create a character. If you create a character, you create a destiny.
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A friend loves you for your intelligence, a mistress for your charm, but your family's love is unreasoning you were born into it and are of its flesh and blood. Nevertheless it can irritate you more than any group of people in the world.
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Two human beings anchored to one another are like two ships shaken by waves their carcases collide with one another and creak.
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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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Lost Illusion is the undisclosed title of every novel.
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