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You know, there are two good things in life, freedom of thought and freedom of action.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Unfortunately sometimes one can’t do what one thinks is right without making someone else unhappy.
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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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All the words I use in my stories can be found in the dictionary-it’s just a matter of arranging them into the right sentences.
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Only a mediocre person is always at his best.
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It is bad enough to know the past; it would be intolerable to know the future.
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I always find it more difficult to say the things I mean than the things I don’t.
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We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits.
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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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The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you.
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The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.
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The essential element of love is a belief in its own eternity.
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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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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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It’s a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.
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Often the best way to overcome desire is to satisfy it.
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Oh, it is dreadfully bitter to look at a woman whom you have loved with all your heart and soul, so that you felt you could not bear to let her out of your sight, and realize that you would not mind if you never saw her again. The tragedy of love is indifference.
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