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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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We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - romantic love and gunpowder.
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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 great man's manias must be respected, because the time required to combat them is too precious to waste.
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A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.
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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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There are very few really brilliant men who have not had at least one madman among their ancestors.
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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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If men could regard the events of their own lives with more open minds, they would frequently discover that they did not really desire the things they failed to obtain.
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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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Marriage makes a man more vulnerable by doubling the expanse of sail exposed to the tempests of social life.
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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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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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Live as if you were eternal.
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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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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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A gentleman is never in a hurry.
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