Andre Maurois

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

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

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

An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.
Andre Maurois

Business is a combination of war and sport.
Andre Maurois

Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know.
Andre Maurois

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

If men could regard the events of their own lives with more open minds, they would frequently discover that they did not really desire the things they failed to obtain.
Andre Maurois

If you create an act, you create a habit. If you create a habit, you create a character. If you create a character, you create a destiny.
Andre Maurois

If you value a man's regard, strive with him. As to liking, you like your newspaper - and despise it.
Andre Maurois

In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
Andre Maurois

Lost Illusion is the undisclosed title of every novel.
Andre Maurois

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

Men and women are not born inconstant: they are made so by their early amorous experiences.
Andre Maurois

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

No one can be profoundly original who does not avoid eccentricity.
Andre Maurois

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

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

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

Smile, for everyone lacks self-confidence and more than any other one thing a smile reassures them.
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Biography
Type: Writer
Nationality: French
Born: July 26, 1885
Died: October 9, 1967

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Andre Breton

All my life, my heart has yearned for a thing I cannot name.
Andre Breton

Beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all.
Andre Breton

Dali is like a man who hesitates between talent and genius, or, as one might once have said, between vice and virtue.
Andre Breton

Everything tends to make us believe that there exists a certain point of the mind at which life and death, the real and the imagined, past and future, the communicable and the incommunicable, high and low, cease to be perceived as contradictions.
Andre Breton

I have always been amazed at the way an ordinary observer lends so much more credence and attaches so much more importance to waking events than to those occurring in dreams... Man... is above all the plaything of his memory.
Andre Breton

If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.
Andre Breton

It is living and ceasing to live that are imaginary solutions. Existence is elsewhere.
Andre Breton

Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself.
Andre Breton

No one who has lived even for a fleeting moment for something other than life in its conventional sense and has experienced the exaltation that this feeling produces can then renounce his new freedom so easily.
Andre Breton

No rules exist, and examples are simply life-savers answering the appeals of rules making vain attempts to exist.
Andre Breton

Nothing retains less of desire in art, in science, than this will to industry, booty, possession.
Andre Breton

Of all the arts in which the wise excel, nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.
Andre Breton

Of all those arts in which the wise excel, Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.
Andre Breton

Perhaps I am doomed to retrace my steps under the illusion that I am exploring, doomed to try and learn what I should simply recognize, learning a mere fraction of what I have forgotten.
Andre Breton

There is nothing with which it is so dangerous to take liberties as liberty itself.
Andre Breton

What one hides is worth neither more nor less than what one finds. And what one hides from oneself is worth neither more nor less than what one allows others to find.
Andre Breton

Words make love with one another.
Andre Breton

Biography
Type: Poet
Nationality: French
Born: February 18, 1896
Died: September 28, 1966

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Andre Gide

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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.
Andre Gide

Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.
Andre Gide

Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.
Andre Gide

Art is the collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.
Andre Gide

Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.
Andre Gide

Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.
Andre Gide

Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
Andre Gide

Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.
Andre Gide

Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.
Andre Gide

God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
Andre Gide

Great authors are admirable in this respect: in every generation they make for disagreement. Through them we become aware of our differences.
Andre Gide

I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress.
Andre Gide

In hell there is no other punishment than to begin over and over again the tasks left unfinished in your lifetime.
Andre Gide

It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not.
Andre Gide

It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.
Andre Gide

It is good to follow one's own bent, so long as it leads upward.
Andre Gide

It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking to it that one overcomes it; often it is by working on the one next to it. Some things and some people have to be approached obliquely, at an angle.
Andre Gide

It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding themselves.
Andre Gide

It is unthinkable for a Frenchman to arrive at middle age without having syphilis and the Cross of the Legion of Honor.
Andre Gide

Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrest his own development. A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly.
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