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Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us.
Andre Maurois
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Andre Maurois
Age: 82 †
Born: 1885
Born: July 26
Died: 1967
Died: October 7
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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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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 minds of different generations are as impenetrable one by the other as are the monads of Leibniz.
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People are discontent men are troubled and the literature is excellent.
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Often we allow ourselves to be upset by small things we should despise and forget. We lose many irreplaceable hours brooding over grievances that, in a year's time, will be forgotten by us and by everybody. No, let us devote our life to worthwhile actions and feelings, to great thoughts, real affections and enduring undertakings.
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The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.
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Everything that is in agreement with our personal desires seems true everything that is not puts us in a rage.
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Two human beings anchored to one another are like two ships shaken by waves their carcases collide with one another and creak.
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It is better to teach a few things perfectly than many things indifferently...
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If, in New York, you arrive late for an appointment, say, I took a taxi.
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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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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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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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Live as if you were eternal.
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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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For intelligent people, action often means escape from thought, but it is a reasonable and a wise escape.
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There are very few really brilliant men who have not had at least one madman among their ancestors.
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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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Learning is nothing without cultivated manners, but when the two are combined in a woman, you have one of the most exquisite products of civilization.
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When you become used to never being alone, you may consider yourself Americanised
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