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If you create a character, you create a destiny.
Andre Maurois
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Andre Maurois
Age: 82 †
Born: 1885
Born: July 26
Died: 1967
Died: October 7
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Artificial inflation of stocks must be considered a crime as serious as counterfeiting, which it closely resembles.
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Sincerity is glass, discretion is diamond.
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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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We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - romantic love and gunpowder.
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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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Two human beings anchored to one another are like two ships shaken by waves their carcases collide with one another and creak.
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Inspiration in matters of taste will not come twice.
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To be witty is not enough. One must possess sufficient wit to avoid having too much of it.
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To feminine eyes a man's prestige, or his fame, envelops him in a luminous haze which obscures his faults. The triumphs of an aviator, an actor, a football player, an orator are often responsible for the beginning of a love affair.
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Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold.
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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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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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Medicine is a very old joke, but it still goes on.
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Only passions can raise a man above the level of the animal.
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Often we allow ourselves to be upset by small things we should despise and forget. We lose many irreplaceable hours brooding over grievances that, in a year's time, will be forgotten by us and by everybody. No, let us devote our life to worthwhile actions and feelings, to great thoughts, real affections and enduring undertakings.
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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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In a discussion, the difficulty lies, not in being able to defend your opinion, but to know it.
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