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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.
Andre Maurois
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Andre Maurois
Age: 82 †
Born: 1885
Born: July 26
Died: 1967
Died: October 7
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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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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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A man cannot free himself from the past more easily than he can from his own body.
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If you create an act, you create a habit. If you create a habit, you create a character. If you create a character, you create a destiny.
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You don't love a man for what he says, but love what he says because you love him.
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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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Only passions can raise a man above the level of the animal.
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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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The greedy search for money or success will almost always lead men into unhappiness. Why? Because that kind of life makes them depend upon things outside themselves.
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Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know.
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If you value a man's regard, strive with him. As to liking, you like your newspaper - and despise it.
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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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Marriage makes a man more vulnerable by doubling the expanse of sail exposed to the tempests of social life.
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Every ten years you should delete from your mind a few ideas that your experience has proven to be false.
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Business is a combination of war and sport.
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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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It is restful to leave one's home not because traveling does not entail varied and difficult daily actions, but because it removes our responsibilities.
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A great biography should, like the close of a great drama, leave behind it a feeling of serenity. We collect into a small bunch the flowers, the few flowers, which brought sweetness into a life, and present it as an offering to an accomplished destiny. It is the dying refrain of a completed song, the final verse of a finished poem.
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