Of all the hokum with which this country [America] is riddled, the most odd is the common notion that it is free of class distinctions.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMThe great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.
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Simplicity and naturalness are the truest marks of distinction.
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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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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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When a woman loves you she’s not satisfied until she possesses your soul. Because she’s weak, she has a rage for domination, and nothing less will satisfy her.
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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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I wish I could make you see how much fuller the life I offer you is than anything you have a conception of.
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You can do anything in this world if you are prepared to take the consequences.
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Why should you think that beauty, which is the most precious thing in the world, lies like a stone on the beach for the careless passer-by to pick up idly?
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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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The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.
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Life wouldn’t be worth living if I worried over the future as well as the present. When things are at their worst I find something always happens.
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Sometimes a man hits upon a place to which he mysteriously feels that he belongs.
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One can be very much in love with a woman without wishing to spend the rest of one’s life with her.
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Any society that values wealth above freedom will lose its freedom, and will ultimately lose its wealth as well
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People talk of beauty lightly, and having no feeling for words, they use that one carelessly, so that it loses its force; and the thing it stands for, sharing its name with a hundred trivial objects, is deprived of dignity.
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