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Art is an effort to create, beside the real world, a more humane world.
Andre Maurois
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Andre Maurois
Age: 82 †
Born: 1885
Born: July 26
Died: 1967
Died: October 7
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You don't love a man for what he says, but love what he says because you love him.
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Sincerity is glass, discretion is diamond.
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In a discussion, the difficulty lies, not in being able to defend your opinion, but to know it.
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Everything that is in agreement with our personal desires seems true everything that is not puts us in a rage.
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