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Of all these the richest in beauty is the beautiful life. That is the perfect work of art.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Throw yourself into the hurly-burly of life. It doesn’t matter how many mistakes you make, what unhappiness you have to undergo. It is all your material …
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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.
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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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If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.
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He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it.
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If nobody spoke unless he had something to say, the human race would very soon lose the use of speech.
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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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A bird in the hand was worth two in the bush, he told her, to which she retorted that a proverb was the last refuge of the mentally destitute.
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There is a sort of man who pays no attention to his good actions, but is tormented by his bad ones. This is the type that most often writes about himself.
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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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Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.
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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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The most valuable thing I have learned from life is to regret nothing.
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In France you get freedom of action: you can do what you like and nobody bothers, but you must think like everybody else. In Germany you must do what everybody else does, but you may think as you choose. They’re both very good things.
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It is a nuisance that knowledge can only be acquired by hard work.
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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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