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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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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 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.
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Lost Illusion is the undisclosed title of every novel.
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A great statesman, like a good housekeeper, knows that cleaning has to be done every morning.
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He who wants to do everything will never do anything.
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The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.
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Housekeeping in common is for women the acid test.
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[...] marriage is one thing, and love is another...You need to have a solid canvas nobody stops you to weave the arabesques.
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Writing is a difficult trade which must be learned slowly by reading great authors by trying at the outset to imitate them by daring then to be original by destroying one's first productions.
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We don't love a woman for what she says, we like what she says because we love her.
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To reason with poorly chosen words is like using a pair of scales with inaccurate weights.
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Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold.
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A great writer has a high respect for values. His essential function is to raise life to the dignity of thought, and this he does by giving it a shape.
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Happiness flourishes where there is happiness...
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No one can be profoundly original who does not avoid eccentricity.
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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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The difficult part in an argument is not to defend one's opinion but rather to know it.
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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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Novelty, the most potent of all attractions, is also the most perishable.
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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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