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Sincerity is glass, discretion is diamond.
Andre Maurois
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Andre Maurois
Age: 82 †
Born: 1885
Born: July 26
Died: 1967
Died: October 7
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Émile Salomon Wilhelm
Andre Maurois
Émile Salomon Wilhelm Herzog
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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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Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold.
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A man cannot free himself from the past more easily than he can from his own body.
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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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Men and women are not born inconstant: they are made so by their early amorous experiences.
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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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The art of growing old is the art of being regarded by the oncoming generations as a support and not as a stumbling-block...
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Advice is always a confession.
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In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
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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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We can talk frankly about our defects only to those who recognise our qualities.
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Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us.
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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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The minds of different generations are as impenetrable one by the other as are the monads of Leibniz.
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If you create an act, you create a habit. If you create a habit, you create a character. If you create a character, you create a destiny.
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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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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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He who has found a good wife has found great happiness, but a quarrelsome woman is like a roof that lets in the rain.
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