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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 desire to be perpetually in the society of a pretty woman until the end of one's days, is as if, because one likes good wine, one wished always to have one's mouth full of it.
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A gentleman is never in a hurry.
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Style is the outcome of constraint.
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Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us. The most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion of a fool.
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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 really great novel tends to be the exact negative of its author's life.
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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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For intelligent people, action often means escape from thought, but it is a reasonable and a wise escape.
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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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Novelty, the most potent of all attractions, is also the most perishable.
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Almost all great writers have as their motif, more or less disguised, the passage from childhood to maturity, the clash between the thrill of expectation and the disillusioning knowledge of truth. 'Lost Illusion' is the undisclosed title of every novel.
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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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Smile, for everyone lacks self-confidence and more than any other one thing a smile reassures them.
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