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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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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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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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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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Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold.
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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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Business is a combination of war and sport.
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He who has found a good wife has found great happiness, but a quarrelsome woman is like a roof that lets in the rain.
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Writing is a difficult trade which must be learned slowly by reading great authors by trying at the outset to imitate them by daring then to be original by destroying one's first productions.
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If, in New York, you arrive late for an appointment, say, I took a taxi.
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Sincerity is glass, discretion is diamond.
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Old age diminishes our strength it takes away our pleasures one after the other it withers the soul as well as the body it renders adventure and friendship difficult and finally it is shadowed by thoughts of death.
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Experience is valuable only when it has brought suffering and when the suffering has left its mark upon both body and mind.
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Novelty, the most potent of all attractions, is also the most perishable.
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In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
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People are what you make them. A scornful look turns into a complete fool a man of average intelligence. A contemptuous indifference turns into an enemy a woman who, well treated, might have been an angel.
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To reason with poorly chosen words is like using a pair of scales with inaccurate weights.
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The difficult part in an argument is not to defend one's opinion but rather to know 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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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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Lost Illusion is the undisclosed title of every novel.
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