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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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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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In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.
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The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you.
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You’re intoxicated by the boundless space.
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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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Most people are such fools that it is really no great compliment to say that someone is above the average.
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It is dangerous to let the public behind the scenes. They are easily disillusioned and then they are angry with you, for it was the illusion they loved.
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If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.
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We who are of mature age seldom suspect how unmercifully and yet with what insight the very young judge us.
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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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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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Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.
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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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Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
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Men seek but one thing in life — their pleasure.
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