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I don’t think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.

W. Somerset Maugham

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The beauty of the morning and the radiance of noon are good, but it would be a very silly person who drew the curtains and turned on the light in order to shut out the tranquillity of the evening. Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.
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Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger.
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To recognize it you must repeat the adventure of the artist. It is a melody that he sings to you, and to hear it again in your own heart you want knowledge and sensitiveness and imagination.
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When you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right.
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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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I am told that today rather more than 60 per cent of the men who go to university go on a Government grant. This is a new class that has entered upon the scene. It is the white-collar proletariat. They do not go to university to acquire culture but to get a job, and when they have got one, scamp it.
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Impropriety is the soul of wit.
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She loved three things – a joke, a glass of wine, and a handsome man.
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The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
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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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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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Simplicity and naturalness are the truest marks of distinction.
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As lovers, the difference between men and women is that women can love all day long, but men only at times.
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It was such a beautiful day I decided to stay in bed.
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I wish I could make you see how much fuller the life I offer you is than anything you have a conception of.
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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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