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I recognize that I am made up of several persons and that the person that at the moment has the upper hand will inevitably give place to another. But which is the real one? All of them or none?

W. Somerset Maugham

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If it is necessary sometimes to lie to others, it is always despicable to lie to oneself.
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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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The mystic sees the ineffable, and the psychopathologist the unspeakable.
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Life is so largely controlled by chance that its conduct can be but a perpetual improvisation.
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There are two good things in life – freedom of thought and freedom of action.
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Art is a manifestation of emotion, and emotion speaks a language that all may understand.
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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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There is nothing so degrading as the constant anxiety about one’s means of livelihood.
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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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if you’d ever had a grown-up daughter you’d know that by comparison a bucking steer is easy to manage. And as to knowing what goes on inside her – well, it’s much better to pretend you’re the simple, innocent old fool she almost certainly takes you for.
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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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Does Future Present Seen Unimportant

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