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A great man's manias must be respected, because the time required to combat them is too precious to waste.
Andre Maurois
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Andre Maurois
Age: 82 †
Born: 1885
Born: July 26
Died: 1967
Died: October 7
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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.
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Smile, for everyone lacks self-confidence and more than any other one thing a smile reassures them.
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To reason with poorly chosen words is like using a pair of scales with inaccurate weights.
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Sincerity is glass, discretion is diamond.
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We can talk frankly about our defects only to those who recognise our qualities.
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A friend loves you for your intelligence, a mistress for your charm, but your family's love is unreasoning you were born into it and are of its flesh and blood. Nevertheless it can irritate you more than any group of people in the world.
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The need to express one's self in writing springs from a maladjustment of life, or from an inner conflict which the adolescent (or the grown man) cannot resolve in action.
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Either the soul is immortal and we shall not die, or it perishes with the flesh and we shall not know that we are dead. Live, then, as if you were eternal.
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In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
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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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