Andre Maurois Quotes - Page 3

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• Information is not culture. In the mind of a truly educated person, facts are organized, and they make up a living world in the image of the world of reality.

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  Reality, Mind, Culture

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• Modesty and unselfishness - these are the virtues which men praise - and pass by.

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  Men, Modesty, Praise

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• Style is the outcome of constraint.

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  Style, Outcomes, Constraints

  "The Art of Writing". Book by Andre Maurois, 1960.

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• There are deserts in every life, and the desert must be depicted if we are to give a fair and complete idea of the country.

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  Country, Ideas, Giving

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• Novelty, the most potent of all attractions, is also the most perishable.

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  Novelty, Attraction

  Andre Maurois (2007). “An Art of Living”, p.76, SpiralPress

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• The longer the road to love, the keener is the pleasure...

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  Love, Pleasure

  "The Art of Living". Book by Andre Maurois, 1939.

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• It is not events and the things one sees and enjoys that produce happiness, but a state of mind which can endow events with its own quality, and we must hope for the duration of this state rather than the recurrence of pleasurable events.

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  Happiness, Mind, Quality

  "The Art of Happiness". Book by Andre Maurois, 1971.

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• People are what you make them. A scornful look turns into a complete fool a man of average intelligence. A contemptuous indifference turns into an enemy a woman who, well treated, might have been an angel.

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  Teaching, Angel, Men

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• Among the idle rich, boredom is one of the most common causes of unhappiness. People who have difficulty in earning their living may suffer greatly, but they are not bored. Wealthy men and women become bored when they depend upon the theater for their enjoyment instead of making their own lives interesting.

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  Men, Boredom, People

  "The Art of Happiness". Book by Andre Maurois, 1971.

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• Like a bird, when his cage is opened, stays on his perch, dazzled by freedom, the postponed traveler does not see that his cage, with its bars of anxiety, it is open.

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  Bird, Anxiety, Doe

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• A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.

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  Love, Success, Anniversary

  "The Art of Living". Book by Andre Maurois, 1939.

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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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  Soul, Flesh, Immortality

  "On the Meaning of Life". Book by Will Durant, 1932.

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• The really great novel tends to be the exact negative of its author's life.

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  Writing, Negative, Novel

  "The Art of Writing". Book by Andre Maurois, 1960.

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• Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us.

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  Self, Self Pity, Pity

  ANDRE MAUROIS (1939). “ARIEL THE LIFE OF SHELLEY”

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• We don't love a woman for what she says, we like what she says because we love her.

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  Women

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• One has very little influence upon one's children. Their characters are what they are and one can do nothing to change them.

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  Children, Character, Littles

  "The Art of Living". Book by Andre Maurois, 1939.

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• A man cannot free himself from the past more easily than he can from his own body.

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  Past, Men, Body

  Andre Maurois (2007). “An Art of Living”, p.50, SpiralPress

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• British conversation is like a game of cricket or a boxing match; personal allusions are forbidden like hitting below the belt, and anyone who loses his temper is disqualified.

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  Games, Boxing, Hitting

  "The Silence of Colonel Bramble". Book by Andre Maurois, 1918.

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• If you create a character, you create a destiny.

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  Inspirational, Character, Destiny

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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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  Civilization, Two, Culture

  ANDRE MAUROIS (1939). “ARIEL THE LIFE OF SHELLEY”

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• To desire to be perpetually in the society of a pretty woman until the end of one's days, is as if, because one likes good wine, one wished always to have one's mouth full of it.

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  Women, Wine, Pretty Woman

  "The Silence of Colonel Bramble". Book by Andre Maurois, 1918.

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• Writing is a difficult trade which must be learned slowly by reading great authors; by trying at the outset to imitate them; by daring then to be original; by destroying one's first productions.

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  Book, Reading, Writing

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• Love born of anxiety resembles a thorn shaped so that efforts to pull it out of one's flesh merely cause it to penetrate more deeply therein.

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  Love, Effort, Anxiety

  "The Art of Living". Book by Andre Maurois, 1939.

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• A great biography should, like the close of a great drama, leave behind it a feeling of serenity. We collect into a small bunch the flowers, the few flowers, which brought sweetness into a life, and present it as an offering to an accomplished destiny. It is the dying refrain of a completed song, the final verse of a finished poem.

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  Song, Drama, Flower

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• Almost all great writers have as their motif, more or less disguised, the passage from childhood to maturity, the clash between the thrill of expectation and the disillusioning knowledge of truth. 'Lost Illusion' is the undisclosed title of every novel.

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  Writing, Maturity, Expectations

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