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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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Novelist
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Science Fiction Writer
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Émile Salomon Wilhelm
Andre Maurois
Émile Salomon Wilhelm Herzog
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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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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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The longer the road to love, the keener is the pleasure...
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[...] marriage is one thing, and love is another...You need to have a solid canvas nobody stops you to weave the arabesques.
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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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Smile, for everyone lacks self-confidence and more than any other one thing a smile reassures them.
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The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.
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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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Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us.
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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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An unsatisfied woman requires luxury, but a woman who is in love with a man will lie on a board.
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A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.
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Style is the outcome of constraint.
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Live as if you were eternal.
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Advice is always a confession.
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We appreciate frankness from those who like us. Frankness from others is called insolence.
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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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A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.
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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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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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