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From Quotes by Andre Maurois
- The art of reading is in great part that of acquiring a better understanding of life from one's encounter with it in a book.
- A man cannot free himself from the past more easily than he can from his own body.
- All of us, from time to time, need a plunge into freedom and novelty, after which routine and discipline will seem delightful by contrast.
- The need to express oneself in writing springs from a mal-adjustment to life, or from an inner conflict which the adolescent (or the grown man)…
- 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…
- We appreciate frankness from those who like us. Frankness from others is called insolence.
- An old man, having retired from active life, regains the gaity and irresponsibility of childhood. He is ready to play, he cannot run with his…
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