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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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It is not events and the things one sees and enjoys that produce happiness, but a state of mind which can endow events with its own quality, and we must hope for the duration of this state rather than the recurrence of pleasurable events.
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Happiness is never there to stay [...] Happiness is merely a respite offered by inquietude.
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Art is an effort to create, beside the real world, a more humane world.
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A great man's manias must be respected, because the time required to combat them is too precious to waste.
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There are certain persons for whom pure Truth is a poison.
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Genius consists of equal parts of natural aptitude and hard work.
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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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We console ourselves with several friends for not having found one real one.
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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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Woman's great strength lies in being late or absent. Presence immediately reveals the weak points of our beloved when she is absent she become one of the sylph-like figures of our adolescence whom we endowed with perfection.
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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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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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Only passions can raise a man above the level of the animal.
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The really great novel tends to be the exact negative of its author's life.
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Marriage makes a man more vulnerable by doubling the expanse of sail exposed to the tempests of social life.
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British conversation is like a game of cricket or a boxing match personal allusions are forbidden like hitting below the belt, and anyone who loses his temper is disqualified.
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Learning is nothing without cultivated manners, but when the two are combined in a woman, you have one of the most exquisite products of civilization.
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Sincerity is glass, discretion is diamond.
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The clear and simple words of common usage are always better than those of erudition. The jargon of the philosophers not seldom conceals an absence of thought.
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A great writer has a high respect for values. His essential function is to raise life to the dignity of thought, and this he does by giving it a shape.
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