The really great novel tends to be the exact negative of its author’s life.
ANDRE MAUROISOld 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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A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.
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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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The most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion of a fool.
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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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No one can be profoundly original who does not avoid eccentricity.
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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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Smile, for everyone lacks self-confidence and more than any other one thing a smile reassures them.
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Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us.
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Men and women are not born inconstant: they are made so by their early amorous experiences.
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Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold.
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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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We appreciate frankness from those who like us. Frankness from others is called insolence.
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Lost Illusion is the undisclosed title of every novel.
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We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity – romantic love and gunpowder.
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An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.
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