No one can be profoundly original who does not avoid eccentricity.
ANDRE MAUROISConversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know.
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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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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.
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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 really great novel tends to be the exact negative of its author’s life.
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Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form.
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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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Men and women are not born inconstant: they are made so by their early amorous experiences.
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A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.
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Smile, for everyone lacks self-confidence and more than any other one thing a smile reassures them.
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We appreciate frankness from those who like us. Frankness from others is called insolence.
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If men could regard the events of their own lives with more open minds, they would frequently discover that they did not really desire the things they failed to obtain.
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The most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion of a fool.
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There are certain persons for whom pure Truth is a poison.
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Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold.
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In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
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