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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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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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An unsatisfied woman requires luxury, but a woman who is in love with a man will lie on a board.
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Few are they who have never had a chance to achieve happiness- and fewer those who have taken that chance.
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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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Love born of anxiety resembles a thorn shaped so that efforts to pull it out of one's flesh merely cause it to penetrate more deeply therein.
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What men call friendship is only social intercourse, an exchange of favours and good offices it comes down to a commercial dealing in which self-esteem always expects to profit.
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Business is a combination of war and sport.
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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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A great biography should, like the close of a great drama, leave behind it a feeling of serenity. We collect into a small bunch the flowers, the few flowers, which brought sweetness into a life, and present it as an offering to an accomplished destiny. It is the dying refrain of a completed song, the final verse of a finished poem.
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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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Our minds have unbelievable power over our bodies.
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The minds of different generations are as impenetrable one by the other as are the monads of Leibniz.
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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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Housekeeping in common is for women the acid test.
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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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Men and women are not born inconstant: they are made so by their early amorous experiences.
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Happiness is never there to stay [...] Happiness is merely a respite offered by inquietude.
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People are discontent men are troubled and the literature is excellent.
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A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.
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Style is the hallmark of a temperament stamped upon the material at hand.
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