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You don't love a man for what he says, but love what he says because you love him.
Andre Maurois
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Andre Maurois
Age: 82 †
Born: 1885
Born: July 26
Died: 1967
Died: October 7
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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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Memory is a great artist. For every man and for every woman it makes the recollection of his or her life a work of art and an unfaithful record.
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Our minds have unbelievable power over our bodies.
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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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Everything that is in agreement with our personal desires seems true everything that is not puts us in a rage.
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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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Business is a combination of war and sport.
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Style is the hallmark of a temperament stamped upon the material at hand.
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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 an act, you create a habit. If you create a habit, you create a character. If you create a character, you create a destiny.
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The art of reading is in great part that of acquiring a better understanding of life from one's encounter with it in a book.
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If you value a man's regard, strive with him. As to liking, you like your newspaper - and despise it.
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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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Live as if you were eternal.
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