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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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To be witty is not enough. One must possess sufficient wit to avoid having too much of it.
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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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Men fear silence as they fear solitude, because both give them a glimpse of the terror of life's nothingness.
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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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There are very few really brilliant men who have not had at least one madman among their ancestors.
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[...] marriage is one thing, and love is another...You need to have a solid canvas nobody stops you to weave the arabesques.
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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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Few are they who have never had a chance to achieve happiness- and fewer those who have taken that chance.
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The longer the road to love, the keener is the pleasure...
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It is better to teach a few things perfectly than many things indifferently...
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Business is a combination of war and sport.
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Our minds have unbelievable power over our bodies.
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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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Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold.
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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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If you create a character, you create a destiny.
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We console ourselves with several friends for not having found one real one.
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Men and women are not born inconstant: they are made so by their early amorous experiences.
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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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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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