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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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Among the idle rich, boredom is one of the most common causes of unhappiness. People who have difficulty in earning their living may suffer greatly, but they are not bored. Wealthy men and women become bored when they depend upon the theater for their enjoyment instead of making their own lives interesting.
Andre Maurois
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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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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Every ten years you should delete from your mind a few ideas that your experience has proven to be false.
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No one can be profoundly original who does not avoid eccentricity.
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The greedy search for money or success will almost always lead men into unhappiness. Why? Because that kind of life makes them depend upon things outside themselves.
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A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.
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Time is a factor in all action. An imperfect scheme put into action at the proper time is better than a perfect one accomplished too late.
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We console ourselves with several friends for not having found one real one.
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Happiness is never there to stay [...] Happiness is merely a respite offered by inquietude.
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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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Only passions can raise a man above the level of the animal.
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Housekeeping in common is for women the acid test.
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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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Advice is always a confession.
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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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Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know.
Andre Maurois
Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us.
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A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.
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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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