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

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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I made up my mind long ago that life was too short to do anything for myself that I could pay others to do for me.
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It is bad enough to know the past; it would be intolerable to know the future.
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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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You learn more quickly under the guidance of experienced teachers.
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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.
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Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.
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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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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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There are times when I look over the various parts of my character with perplexity.
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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’re intoxicated by the boundless space.
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What does democracy come down to? The persuasive power of slogans invented by wily self-seeking politicians.
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Impropriety is the soul of wit.
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Impropriety Soul Wit
Art is a manifestation of emotion, and emotion speaks a language that all may understand.
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Art Emotion Mainfstation May Speak Understand
If it is necessary sometimes to lie to others, it is always despicable to lie to oneself.
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