We can talk frankly about our ...

We can talk frankly about our defects only to those who recognise our qualities.
We can talk frankly about our defects only to those who recognise our qualities.
 Andre Maurois

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Amores Perros and Once Were Warriors had a tremendous visceral quality that really influenced me.
 Brendan Fletcher
We are all warriors. Each of us struggles every day to define and defend our sense of purpose and integrity, to justify our existence on the planet and to understand, if only within our own hearts, who we are and what we believe in.
 Steven Pressfield
If one man kills a hundred men, and another man masters himself, the second man is the much greater warrior.
You may abandon your own body but you must preserve your honour.
 Miyamoto Musashi
Man is the only animal that blushes - or needs to.

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Men fear silence as they fear solitude, because both give them a glimpse of the terror of life's nothingness.
 Andre Maurois
Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form.
 Andre Maurois
Almost all great writers have as their motif, more or less disguised, the passage from childhood to maturity, the clash between the thrill of expectation and the disillusioning knowledge of truth. 'Lost Illusion' is the undisclosed title of every novel.
 Andre Maurois
In a discussion, the difficulty lies, not in being able to defend your opinion, but to know it.
 Andre Maurois
Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold.
 Andre Maurois