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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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• If, in New York, you arrive late for an appointment, say, "I took a taxi".

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  New York, Taxi, Late

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• To feminine eyes a man's prestige, or his fame, envelops him in a luminous haze which obscures his faults. The triumphs of an aviator, an actor, a football player, an orator are often responsible for the beginning of a love affair.

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  Football, Eye, Player

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

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• It is restful to leave one's home; not because traveling does not entail varied and difficult daily actions, but because it removes our responsibilities.

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  Home, Responsibility, Doe

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

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• Woman's great strength lies in being late or absent. Presence immediately reveals the weak points of our beloved; when she is absent she become one of the sylph-like figures of our adolescence whom we endowed with perfection.

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  Women, Lying, Perfection

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

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• The need to express one's self in writing springs from a maladjustment of life, or from an inner conflict which the adolescent (or the grown man) cannot resolve in action.

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  Spring, Writing, Men

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• The minds of different generations are as impenetrable one by the other as are the monads of Leibniz.

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  Mind, Different, Generations

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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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  Lying, Able, Opinion

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• Marriage makes a man more vulnerable by doubling the expanse of sail exposed to the tempests of social life.

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  Men, Vulnerable, Tempest

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

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• Old age diminishes our strength; it takes away our pleasures one after the other; it withers the soul as well as the body; it renders adventure and friendship difficult; and finally it is shadowed by thoughts of death.

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  Adventure, Soul, Age

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

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• [...] marriage is one thing, and love is another...You need to have a solid canvas; nobody stops you to weave the arabesques.

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  Love, Age, Needs

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• What men call friendship is only social intercourse, an exchange of favours and good offices; it comes down to a commercial dealing in which self-esteem always expects to profit.

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  Self Esteem, Men, Office

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

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• A great writer has a high respect for values. His essential function is to raise life to the dignity of thought, and this he does by giving it a shape.

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  Writing, Giving, Essentials

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

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• I knew a man who had been virtually drowned and then revived. He said that his death had not been painful.

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  Men, Painful, Said

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• Housekeeping in common is for women the acid test.

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  Women, Tests, Acid

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

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• The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.

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  Effectiveness, Progression, Increase

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