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Now the answer … is plain, but it is so unpalatable that most men will not face it. There is no reason for life and life has no meaning.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Don’t wait for experience to come to you; go out after experience. Experience is your material.
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I am told that today rather more than 60 per cent of the men who go to university go on a Government grant. This is a new class that has entered upon the scene. It is the white-collar proletariat. They do not go to university to acquire culture but to get a job, and when they have got one, scamp it.
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If it is necessary sometimes to lie to others, it is always despicable to lie to oneself.
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As lovers, the difference between men and women is that women can love all day long, but men only at times.
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There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
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The mystic sees the ineffable, and the psychopathologist the unspeakable.
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If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.
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But it may be that the way of life that he has chosen for himself and the peculiar strength and sweetness of his character may have an ever-growing influence over his fellow men so that, long after his death perhaps, it may be realized that there lived in this age a very remarkable creature.
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You demand unselfishness from others, which is a preposterous claim that they should sacrifice their desires to yours. Why should they?
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It’s no good trying to keep up old friendships. It’s painful for both sides. The fact is, one grows out of people, and the only thing is to face it.
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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 crown of literature is poetry. It is its end and aim. It is the sublimest activity of the human mind. It is the achievement of beauty and delicacy. The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes.
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They call beautiful a dress, a dog, a sermon; and when they are face to face with Beauty cannot recognise it.
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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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We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits.
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The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.
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