A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.
ANDRE MAUROISConversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know.
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If you create an act, you create a habit. If you create a habit, you create a character. If you create a character, you create a destiny.
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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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There are certain persons for whom pure Truth is a poison.
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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 first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.
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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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Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form.
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In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
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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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Men and women are not born inconstant: they are made so by their early amorous experiences.
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The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.
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Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us.
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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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The most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion of a fool.
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Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold.
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