No one can be profoundly original who does not avoid eccentricity.
ANDRE MAUROISMen and women are not born inconstant: they are made so by their early amorous experiences.
More Andre Maurois Quotes
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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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Lost Illusion is the undisclosed title of every novel.
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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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Business is a combination of war and sport.
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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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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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If you value a man’s regard, strive with him. As to liking, you like your newspaper – and despise it.
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A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.
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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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Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know.
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Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold.
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Modesty and unselfishness – these are the virtues which men praise – and pass by.
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There are certain persons for whom pure Truth is a poison.
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To be witty is not enough. One must possess sufficient wit to avoid having too much of it.
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Style is the hallmark of a temperament stamped upon the material at hand.
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