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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 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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We can talk frankly about our defects only to those who recognise our qualities.
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Modesty and unselfishness - these are the virtues which men praise - and pass by.
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The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.
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Our minds have unbelievable power over our bodies.
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Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold.
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It is restful to leave one's home not because traveling does not entail varied and difficult daily actions, but because it removes our responsibilities.
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Among the idle rich, boredom is one of the most common causes of unhappiness. People who have difficulty in earning their living may suffer greatly, but they are not bored. Wealthy men and women become bored when they depend upon the theater for their enjoyment instead of making their own lives interesting.
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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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Art is an effort to create, beside the real world, a more humane world.
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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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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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Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game finished, that the stage belongs to the rising generations. The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul.
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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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All of us, from time to time, need a plunge into freedom and novelty, after which routine and discipline will seem delightful by contrast.
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You don't love a man for what he says, but love what he says because you love him.
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A great statesman, like a good housekeeper, knows that cleaning has to be done every morning.
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A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.
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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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