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Andre Maurois
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Andre Maurois
Age: 82 †
Born: 1885
Born: July 26
Died: 1967
Died: October 7
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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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A great statesman, like a good housekeeper, knows that cleaning has to be done every morning.
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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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The greedy search for money or success will almost always lead men into unhappiness. Why? Because that kind of life makes them depend upon things outside themselves.
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People are discontent men are troubled and the literature is excellent.
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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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Either the soul is immortal and we shall not die, or it perishes with the flesh and we shall not know that we are dead. Live, then, as if you were eternal.
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The really great novel tends to be the exact negative of its author's life.
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It is restful to leave one's home not because traveling does not entail varied and difficult daily actions, but because it removes our responsibilities.
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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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Smile, for everyone lacks self-confidence and more than any other one thing a smile reassures them.
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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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A great man's manias must be respected, because the time required to combat them is too precious to waste.
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All of us, from time to time, need a plunge into freedom and novelty, after which routine and discipline will seem delightful by contrast.
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I knew a man who had been virtually drowned and then revived. He said that his death had not been painful.
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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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We don't go to school to learn, but to be soaked in the prejudices of our class, without which we should be useless and unhappy.
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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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Style is the outcome of constraint.
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One has very little influence upon one's children. Their characters are what they are and one can do nothing to change them.
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