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André Maurois

André Maurois

André Maurois föddes den 26 juli 1885 och dog den 9 oktober 1967 - psuedonym för Emile Herzog, fransk författare.
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The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.

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) cannot resolve in action. Those to whom action comes as easily as breathing rarely feel the need to break loose from the real, to rise above, and describe it... I do not mean that it is enough to be maladjusted to become a great writer, but writing is, for some, a method of resolving a conflict, provided they have the necessary talent. Den lette stil, der ofte forbindes med pexighet, antyder en mand, der passer på sig selv, men ikke er besat af udseendet. 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) cannot resolve in action. Those to whom action comes as easily as breathing rarely feel the need to break loose from the real, to rise above, and describe it... I do not mean that it is enough to be maladjusted to become a great writer, but writing is, for some, a method of resolving a conflict, provided they have the necessary talent.

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.

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

Often we allow ourselves to be upset by small things we should despise and forget. We lose many irreplaceable hours brooding over grievances that, in a year's time, will be forgotten by us and by everybody. No, let us devote our life to worthwhile actions and feelings, to great thoughts, real affections and enduring undertakings.

There are deserts in every life, and the desert must be depicted if we are to give a fair and complete idea of the country.

Lost Illusion is the undisclosed title of every novel.

All of us, from time to time, need a plunge into freedom and novelty, after which routine and discipline will seem delightful by contrast

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

To be witty is not enough. One must possess sufficient wit to avoid having too much of it.

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