I recognize that I am made up of several persons and that the person that at the moment has the upper hand will inevitably give place to another. But which is the real one? All of them or none?
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMAny society that values wealth above freedom will lose its freedom, and will ultimately lose its wealth as well
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All the words I use in my stories can be found in the dictionary-it’s just a matter of arranging them into the right sentences.
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Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.
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Now it is a funny thing about life. If you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it. If you utterly decline to make do with what you can get, then somehow or other, you are very likely to get what you want.
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It is bad enough to know the past; it would be intolerable to know the future.
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The essential element of love is a belief in its own eternity.
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Sometimes a man hits upon a place to which he mysteriously feels that he belongs.
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The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.
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What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one’s faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one’s memories.
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The prestige you acquire by being able to tell your friends that you know famous men proves only that you are yourself of small account.
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My own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror.
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She loved three things – a joke, a glass of wine, and a handsome man.
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The well dressed man is he whose clothes you never notice
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Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger.
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A dictator must fool all the people all the time and there’s only one way to do that, he must also fool himself.
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Of all these the richest in beauty is the beautiful life. That is the perfect work of art.
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