Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know.
ANDRE MAUROISA contemptuous indifference turns into an enemy a woman who, well treated, might have been an angel.
More Andre Maurois Quotes
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Style is the hallmark of a temperament stamped upon the material at hand.
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The really great novel tends to be the exact negative of its author’s life.
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Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us.
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We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity – romantic love and gunpowder.
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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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Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold.
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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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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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The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul.
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A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.
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Men and women are not born inconstant: they are made so by their early amorous experiences.
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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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In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
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A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.
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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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