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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
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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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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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To feminine eyes a man's prestige, or his fame, envelops him in a luminous haze which obscures his faults. The triumphs of an aviator, an actor, a football player, an orator are often responsible for the beginning of a love affair.
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To reason with poorly chosen words is like using a pair of scales with inaccurate weights.
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The really great novel tends to be the exact negative of its author's life.
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If, in New York, you arrive late for an appointment, say, I took a taxi.
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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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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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There are deserts in every life, and the desert must be depicted if we are to give a fair and complete idea of the country.
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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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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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If you value a man's regard, strive with him. As to liking, you like your newspaper - and despise it.
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Art is an effort to create, beside the real world, a more humane world.
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Every ten years you should delete from your mind a few ideas that your experience has proven to be false.
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Modesty and unselfishness - these are the virtues which men praise - and pass by.
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It is often said that in prosperity we have many friends, but that we are usually neglected when things go badly. I disagree. Not only do malicious people flock about us in order to witness our ruin, but other unfortunates as well, who have been kept away by our happiness, and now feel close to us on account of our troubles.
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Housekeeping in common is for women the acid test.
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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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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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