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It wasn’t until late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say, ‘I don’t know.’

W. Somerset Maugham

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There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
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She loved three things – a joke, a glass of wine, and a handsome man.
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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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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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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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It was such a beautiful day I decided to stay in bed.
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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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Tolerance is only another name for indifference.
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As the cosmos are in place, so be it with your life.
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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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Often the best way to overcome desire is to satisfy it.
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If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too.
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The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.
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Impropriety is the soul of wit.
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The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
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The crown of literature is poetry. It is its end and aim. It is the sublimest activity of the human mind. It is the achievement of beauty and delicacy. The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes.
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