A contemptuous indifference turns into an enemy a woman who, well treated, might have been an angel.
ANDRE MAUROISThe really great novel tends to be the exact negative of its author’s life.
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The really great novel tends to be the exact negative of its author’s life.
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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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The most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such. All leaders whose fitness is questioned are clearly lacking in force.
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We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity – romantic love and gunpowder.
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In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
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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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A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.
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A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.
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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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To be witty is not enough. One must possess sufficient wit to avoid having too much of it.
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A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.
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We appreciate frankness from those who like us. Frankness from others is called insolence.
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Men and women are not born inconstant: they are made so by their early amorous experiences.
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Style is the hallmark of a temperament stamped upon the material at hand.
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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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