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Style is the outcome of constraint.
Andre Maurois
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Andre Maurois
Age: 82 †
Born: 1885
Born: July 26
Died: 1967
Died: October 7
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Experience is valuable only when it has brought suffering and when the suffering has left its mark upon both body and mind.
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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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To reason with poorly chosen words is like using a pair of scales with inaccurate weights.
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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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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.
Andre Maurois
The really great novel tends to be the exact negative of its author's life.
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An unsatisfied woman requires luxury, but a woman who is in love with a man will lie on a board.
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He who wants to do everything will never do anything.
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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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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.
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Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment.
Andre Maurois
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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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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A man cannot free himself from the past more easily than he can from his own body.
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You don't love a man for what he says, but love what he says because you love him.
Andre Maurois
We can talk frankly about our defects only to those who recognise our qualities.
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A gentleman is never in a hurry.
Andre Maurois
One has very little influence upon one's children. Their characters are what they are and one can do nothing to change them.
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