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The mystic sees the ineffable, and the psychopathologist the unspeakable.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Tolerance is only another name for indifference.
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Another Indifference Name Only Tolerance
Impropriety is the soul of wit.
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Impropriety Soul Wit
The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.
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Beautiful Essence Unity Variety
Life is so largely controlled by chance that its conduct can be but a perpetual improvisation.
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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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The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity.
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Any society that values wealth above freedom will lose its freedom, and will ultimately lose its wealth as well
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Freedom Lose Society Ultimately Value Wealth Well
Often the best way to overcome desire is to satisfy it.
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I have an idea that the only thing which makes it possible to regard this world we live in without disgust is the beauty which now and then men create out of the chaos. The pictures they paint, the music they compose, the books they write, and the lives they lead.
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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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Always Despicable Necessary Oneself Other Sometimes
Art is a manifestation of emotion, and emotion speaks a language that all may understand.
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Art Emotion Mainfstation May Speak Understand
The essential element of love is a belief in its own eternity.
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The prestige you acquire by being able to tell your friends that you know famous men proves only that you are yourself of small account.
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I personally prefer freedom of thought. But in England you get neither: you’re ground down by convention. You can’t think as you like and you can’t act as you like. That’s because it’s a democratic nation. I expect America’s worse.
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A mother only does her children harm if she makes them the only concern of her life.
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Children Concern Harm Life Make Mother
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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Cease Concern Death Effect Exist Happen Living

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