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Everything that is in agreement with our personal desires seems true everything that is not puts us in a rage.
Andre Maurois
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Andre Maurois
Age: 82 †
Born: 1885
Born: July 26
Died: 1967
Died: October 7
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Among the idle rich, boredom is one of the most common causes of unhappiness. People who have difficulty in earning their living may suffer greatly, but they are not bored. Wealthy men and women become bored when they depend upon the theater for their enjoyment instead of making their own lives interesting.
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Art is an effort to create, beside the real world, a more humane world.
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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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Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know.
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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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If you create a character, you create a destiny.
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We appreciate frankness from those who like us. Frankness from others is called insolence.
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A true woman loves a strong man because she knows his weaknesses. She protects as much as she is protected.
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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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Like a bird, when his cage is opened, stays on his perch, dazzled by freedom, the postponed traveler does not see that his cage, with its bars of anxiety, it is open.
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The need to express one's self in writing springs from a maladjustment of life, or from an inner conflict which the adolescent (or the grown man) cannot resolve in action.
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The art of growing old is the art of being regarded by the oncoming generations as a support and not as a stumbling-block...
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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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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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