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I have an idea that the only thing which makes it possible to regard this world we live in without disgust is the beauty which now and then men create out of the chaos. The pictures they paint, the music they compose, the books they write, and the lives they lead.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Beauty is something wonderful and strange that the artist fashions out of the chaos of the world in the torment of his soul. And when he has made it, it is not given to all to know it.
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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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The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.
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In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.
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I´m not going to bring a child into the world, and love her, and bring her up, just so that some man may want to sleep with her so much that he’s willing to provide her with board and lodging for the rest of her life.
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There is nothing so degrading as the constant anxiety about one’s means of livelihood.
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There are times when I look over the various parts of my character with perplexity.
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Oh, it is dreadfully bitter to look at a woman whom you have loved with all your heart and soul, so that you felt you could not bear to let her out of your sight, and realize that you would not mind if you never saw her again. The tragedy of love is indifference.
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When you’re eighteen your emotions are violent, but they’re not durable.
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Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
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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 want a girl because I want to bring her up so that she shan’t make the mistakes I’ve made.
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The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you.
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The future will one day be the present and will seem as unimportant as the present does now.
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