The really great novel tends to be the exact negative of its author’s life.
ANDRE MAUROISA happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.
More Andre Maurois Quotes
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The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.
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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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If you value a man’s regard, strive with him. As to liking, you like your newspaper – and despise it.
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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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There are certain persons for whom pure Truth is a poison.
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Men and women are not born inconstant: they are made so by their early amorous experiences.
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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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The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.
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Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us.
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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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A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.
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No one can be profoundly original who does not avoid eccentricity.
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Lost Illusion is the undisclosed title of every novel.
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The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul.
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Style is the hallmark of a temperament stamped upon the material at hand.
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