We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity – romantic love and gunpowder.
ANDRE MAUROISIf 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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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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Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold.
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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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A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.
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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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Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us.
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Business is a combination of war and sport.
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Men and women are not born inconstant: they are made so by their early amorous experiences.
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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 effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.
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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 really great novel tends to be the exact negative of its author’s life.
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Lost Illusion is the undisclosed title of every novel.
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Modesty and unselfishness – these are the virtues which men praise – and pass by.
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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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