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One 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.
- [...] marriage is one thing, and love is another...You need to have a solid canvas; nobody stops you to weave the arabesques...
- The minds of different generations are as impenetrable one by the other as are the monads of Leibniz.
- 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.
- 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…
- Smile, for everyone lacks self-confidence and more than any other one thing a smile reassures them.
- The difficult part in an argument is not to defend one's opinion but rather to know it.
- To be witty is not enough. One must possess sufficient wit to avoid having too much of it.
- No one can be profoundly original who does not avoid eccentricity.
- Two human beings anchored to one another are like two ships shaken by waves; their carcases collide with one another and creak.
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