Quote by André Maurois
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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. – André Maurois

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A man cannot free himself from the past more easily than he can from his own body. – André Maurois

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Your spirit is the true shield. – Morihei Ueshiba

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Life is a pure flame, and we live by an invisible sun within us. – Thomas Browne

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Each one of us is alone in the world… We seek pitifully to convey to others the treasures of our heart, but they have not the power to accept them, and so we go lonely, side by side but not together, unable to know our fellows and unknown by them. – W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence, 1919

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The finest thing in the world is knowing how to belong to oneself. – Michel de Montaigne, Of Solitude

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