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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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A gentleman is never in a hurry.
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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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Men and women are not born inconstant: they are made so by their early amorous experiences.
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The clear and simple words of common usage are always better than those of erudition. The jargon of the philosophers not seldom conceals an absence of thought.
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Either the soul is immortal and we shall not die, or it perishes with the flesh and we shall not know that we are dead. Live, then, as if you were eternal.
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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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