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The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Words have weight, sound and appearance; it is only by considering these that you can write a sentence that is good to look at and good to listen to.
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There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
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The well dressed man is he whose clothes you never notice
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If you don’t change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?
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You can do anything in this world if you are prepared to take the consequences.
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The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.
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It wasn’t until late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say, ‘I don’t know.’
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When you are reconciled to the fact that each is for himself in the world you will ask less from your fellows. They will not disappoint you, and you will look upon them more charitably.
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Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
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I wish I could make you see how exciting the life of the spirit is and how rich in experience. It’s illimitable. It’s such a happy life. There’s only one thing like it, when you’re up in a plane by yourself, high, high, and only infinity surrounds you.
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Excite Experience Happy High Illuminate Infinity One Plane Rich Spirit Surround
When I was young I was amazed at Plutarch’s statement that the elder Cato began at the age of eighty to learn Greek. I am amazed no longer. Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.
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Life isn’t long enough for love and art.
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Art Enough Life Long Love
Throw yourself into the hurly-burly of life. It doesn’t matter how many mistakes you make, what unhappiness you have to undergo. It is all your material …
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Burly Hurly Make Many Matter Mistake Undergo Unhappiness Yourself
To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.
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Acquire Almost Construct Habit Life Miseries Raed Refuse Yourself
Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.
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There is nothing so degrading as the constant anxiety about one’s means of livelihood.
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