Andre Maurois
Writer
1885-07-26 – 1967-10-09
Andre Maurois was a French author, biographer, and essayist. He wrote literary biographies and fiction and was elected to the Academie francaise.
Books by Andre Maurois
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The Art of Living
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General Bramble
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Quotes by Andre Maurois
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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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Smile, for everyone lacks self-confidence and more than any other one thing a smile reassures them.
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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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Lost Illusion is the undisclosed title of every novel.
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Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold.
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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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Modesty and unselfishness - these are the virtues which men praise - and pass by.
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We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - romantic love and gunpowder.
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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. The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul.
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Art is an effort to create, beside the real world, a more human world.
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Advice is always a confession.
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A mixture of admiration and pity is one of the surest recipes for affection.
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In a discussion, the difficulty lies, not in being able to defend your opinion, but to know it.
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Learning is nothing without cultivated manners, but when the two are combined in a woman, you have one of the most exquisite products of civilization.
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Either the soul is immortal and we shall not die, or it perishes with the flesh, and we shall not know that we are dead. Live, then, as if you were eternal.
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In literature, as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
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Marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.
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A happy marriage is a long conversation that always seems too short.
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Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy man has no time to form.
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Modesty and unselfishness - these are virtues which men praise - and pass by.
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