Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form.
ANDRE MAUROISIn literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
More Andre Maurois Quotes
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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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Men and women are not born inconstant: they are made so by their early amorous experiences.
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A contemptuous indifference turns into an enemy a woman who, well treated, might have been an angel.
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Business is a combination of war and sport.
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The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.
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Lost Illusion is the undisclosed title of every novel.
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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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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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We appreciate frankness from those who like us. Frankness from others is called insolence.
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The most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion of a fool.
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A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.
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We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity – romantic love and gunpowder.
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Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us.
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No one can be profoundly original who does not avoid eccentricity.
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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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