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Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.
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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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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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Both Face Fact Friendship Good Grow Keep Old Only Painful People Side Thing
Death doesn’t affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn’t concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.
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What does democracy come down to? The persuasive power of slogans invented by wily self-seeking politicians.
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Come Democracy Down Invent Persuasive Politician Power Seek Self Slogan
When you are reconciled to the fact that each is for himself in the world you will ask less from your fellows. They will not disappoint you, and you will look upon them more charitably.
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Ask Charitablity Disappoint Each Fellow Himself Less More Reconcile
The essential element of love is a belief in its own eternity.
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One cannot find peace in work or in pleasure, in the world or in a convent, but only in one’s soul.
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We must be very humble. We must see the beauty of quietness. We must go through life so inconspicuously that Fate does not notice us. And let us seek the love of simple, ignorant people. Their ignorance is better than all our knowledge.
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Beauty Humble Ignorance Inconspicuously Knowledge Love Notice Outness People Simple
There is nothing so terrible as the pursuit of art by those who have no talent.
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No Nothing Pursuit Talent Terrible Those
Tolerance is only another name for indifference.
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Another Indifference Name Only Tolerance
The Almighty can hardly be such a fool as the churches make out.
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Almighty Church Fool Harder Make Out
The mystic sees the ineffable, and the psychopathologist the unspeakable.
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I’d sooner be smashed into a mangled pulp by a bus when we cross the street than look forward to a life like yours.
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Buy Cross Forward Life Like Look Mangled Pulp Smasher Sooner Street
It is bad enough to know the past; it would be intolerable to know the future.
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Bad Enough Future Know Past
It was such a beautiful day I decided to stay in bed.
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Beautiful Bed Day Decide Stau Such

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