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Art is a manifestation of emotion, and emotion speaks a language that all may understand.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Often the best way to overcome desire is to satisfy it.
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It wasn’t until late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say, ‘I don’t know.’
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When you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right.
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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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Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
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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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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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Action Both Bother Choose Country Else Everybody Freedom Good May Nobody Thing
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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She loved three things – a joke, a glass of wine, and a handsome man.
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Why should you think that beauty, which is the most precious thing in the world, lies like a stone on the beach for the careless passer-by to pick up idly?
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People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.
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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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If nobody spoke unless he had something to say, the human race would very soon lose the use of speech.
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Human Lose Nobody Race Something Soon Speech Spoke Unless Very
We do not write because we want to; we write because we have to.
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The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you.
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He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it.
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