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No one can be profoundly original who does not avoid eccentricity.
Andre Maurois
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Andre Maurois
Age: 82 †
Born: 1885
Born: July 26
Died: 1967
Died: October 7
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Love born of anxiety resembles a thorn shaped so that efforts to pull it out of one's flesh merely cause it to penetrate more deeply therein.
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We don't go to school to learn, but to be soaked in the prejudices of our class, without which we should be useless and unhappy.
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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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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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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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Medicine is a very old joke, but it still goes on.
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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 difficult part in an argument is not to defend one's opinion but rather to know it.
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Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know.
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We console ourselves with several friends for not having found one real one.
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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 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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Lost Illusion is the undisclosed title of every novel.
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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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A man cannot free himself from the past more easily than he can from his own body.
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Only passions can raise a man above the level of the animal.
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Novelty, the most potent of all attractions, is also the most perishable.
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There are certain persons for whom pure Truth is a poison.
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Information is not culture. In the mind of a truly educated person, facts are organized, and they make up a living world in the image of the world of reality.
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The art of reading is in great part that of acquiring a better understanding of life from one's encounter with it in a book.
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