Smile, for everyone lacks self-confidence and more than any other one thing a smile reassures them.
—Andre Maurois
Topics: Confidence
A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.
—Andre Maurois
Topics: Marriage, Crises
No one can be profoundly original who does not avoid eccentricity.
—Andre Maurois
Topics: Originality
Everything that is in agreement with our personal desires
seems true. Everything that is not puts us into a rage.
—Andre Maurois
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.
—Andre Maurois
Topics: Biography
In literature, as in love, we are astonished at the choice made by other people.
—Andre Maurois
Topics: Writing, Literature, Books
Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment.
—Andre Maurois
Topics: Anxiety, Fear
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