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People are discontent men are troubled and the literature is excellent.
Andre Maurois
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Andre Maurois
Age: 82 †
Born: 1885
Born: July 26
Died: 1967
Died: October 7
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We don't go to school to learn, but to be soaked in the prejudices of our class, without which we should be useless and unhappy.
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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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A true woman loves a strong man because she knows his weaknesses. She protects as much as she is protected.
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Our minds have unbelievable power over our bodies.
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To be witty is not enough. One must possess sufficient wit to avoid having too much of it.
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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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Everything that is in agreement with our personal desires seems true everything that is not puts us in a rage.
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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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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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Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us.
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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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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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To reason with poorly chosen words is like using a pair of scales with inaccurate weights.
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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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