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Art is an effort to create, be...

Art is an effort to create, beside the real world, a more human world

Andre Maurois 120 quotes

A happy marriage is a long con...

A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.

Andre Maurois 120 quotes

Writing is a difficult trade w...

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.

Andre Maurois 120 quotes

Smile, for everyone lacks self...

Smile, for everyone lacks self-confidence and more than any other one thing a smile reassures them.

Andre Maurois 120 quotes

Almost all great writers have ...

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.

Andre Maurois 120 quotes

Everything that is in agreemen...

Everything that is in agreement with our personal desires seems true.
Everything that is not puts us in a rage.

Andre Maurois 120 quotes

The first recipe for happiness...

The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.

Andre Maurois 120 quotes

Without a family, man, alone i...

Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold.

Andre Maurois 120 quotes

Growing old is no more than a ...

Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form.

Andre Maurois 120 quotes

People are what you make them....

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.

Andre Maurois 120 quotes

Business is a combination of w...

Business is a combination of war and sport.

Andre Maurois 120 quotes

Old age is far more than white...

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.

Andre Maurois 120 quotes

We appreciate frankness from t...

We appreciate frankness from those who like us. Frankness from others is called insolence.

Andre Maurois 120 quotes

Self-pity comes so naturally t...

Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us. The most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion of a fool.

Andre Maurois 120 quotes

A marriage without conflicts i...

A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.

Andre Maurois 120 quotes

Memory is a great artist. For ...

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.

Andre Maurois 120 quotes

Lost Illusion is the undisclos...

Lost Illusion is the undisclosed title of every novel.

Andre Maurois 120 quotes

There are certain persons for ...

There are certain persons for whom pure Truth is a poison.

Andre Maurois 120 quotes

Modesty and unselfishness - th...

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

Andre Maurois 120 quotes

Style is the hallmark of a tem...

Style is the hallmark of a temperament stamped upon the material at hand.

Andre Maurois 120 quotes

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