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Inspiration in matters of taste will not come twice.
Andre Maurois
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Andre Maurois
Age: 82 †
Born: 1885
Born: July 26
Died: 1967
Died: October 7
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Style is the outcome of constraint.
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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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People are discontent men are troubled and the literature is excellent.
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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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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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We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - romantic love and gunpowder.
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Happiness is never there to stay [...] Happiness is merely a respite offered by inquietude.
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Almost all great writers have as their motif, more or less disguised, the passage from childhood to maturity, the clash between the thrill of expectation and the disillusioning knowledge of truth. 'Lost Illusion' is the undisclosed title of every novel.
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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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Memory is a great artist. For every man and for every woman it makes the recollection of his or her life a work of art and an unfaithful record.
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Everything that is in agreement with our personal desires seems true everything that is not puts us in a rage.
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If, in New York, you arrive late for an appointment, say, I took a taxi.
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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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Information is not culture. In the mind of a truly educated person, facts are organized, and they make up a living world in the image of the world of reality.
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Advice is always a confession.
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The reading of a fine book is an uninterrupted dialogue in which the book speaks and our soul replies.
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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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