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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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Information is not culture. In the mind of a truly educated person, facts are organized, and they make up a living world in the image of the world of reality.
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Happiness is never there to stay [...] Happiness is merely a respite offered by inquietude.
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Love born of anxiety resembles a thorn shaped so that efforts to pull it out of one's flesh merely cause it to penetrate more deeply therein.
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Woman's great strength lies in being late or absent. Presence immediately reveals the weak points of our beloved when she is absent she become one of the sylph-like figures of our adolescence whom we endowed with perfection.
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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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There are very few really brilliant men who have not had at least one madman among their ancestors.
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The difficult part in an argument is not to defend one's opinion but rather to know it.
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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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A great man's manias must be respected, because the time required to combat them is too precious to waste.
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The really great novel tends to be the exact negative of its author's life.
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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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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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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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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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We can talk frankly about our defects only to those who recognise our qualities.
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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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