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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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Émile Salomon Wilhelm
Andre Maurois
Émile Salomon Wilhelm Herzog
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If men could regard the events of their own lives with more open minds, they would frequently discover that they did not really desire the things they failed to obtain.
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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.
Andre Maurois
Love born of anxiety resembles a thorn shaped so that efforts to pull it out of one's flesh merely cause it to penetrate more deeply therein.
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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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Marriage makes a man more vulnerable by doubling the expanse of sail exposed to the tempests of social life.
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Medicine is a very old joke, but it still goes on.
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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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Old age diminishes our strength it takes away our pleasures one after the other it withers the soul as well as the body it renders adventure and friendship difficult and finally it is shadowed by thoughts of death.
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When you become used to never being alone, you may consider yourself Americanised
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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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We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - romantic love and gunpowder.
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Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us.
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Happiness is never there to stay [...] Happiness is merely a respite offered by inquietude.
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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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There are certain persons for whom pure Truth is a poison.
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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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A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.
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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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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.
Andre Maurois
Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment.
Andre Maurois
