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Only passions can raise a man above the level of the animal.
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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Happiness is never there to stay [...] Happiness is merely a respite offered by inquietude.
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For intelligent people, action often means escape from thought, but it is a reasonable and a wise escape.
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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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We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - romantic love and gunpowder.
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Style is the hallmark of a temperament stamped upon the material at hand.
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Art is an effort to create, beside the real world, a more humane world.
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