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Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Now it is a funny thing about life. If you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it. If you utterly decline to make do with what you can get, then somehow or other, you are very likely to get what you want.
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Accept Anything Best Funny Get Life Often Refuse Thing
You can do anything in this world if you are prepared to take the consequences.
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Anything Consequences Prepare Take World
The future will one day be the present and will seem as unimportant as the present does now.
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Does Future Present Seen Unimportant
To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give.
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Anyone Bear Best Character Courage Failure Give Proof
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
We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits.
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Defect Friend Know Merit Rather
Impropriety is the soul of wit.
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Impropriety Soul Wit
Of all these the richest in beauty is the beautiful life. That is the perfect work of art.
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All Art Beautiful Beauty Perfect Richest Work
You learn more quickly under the guidance of experienced teachers.
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Experience Guidance Learn More Quick Teacher Under
There are times when I look over the various parts of my character with perplexity.
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Character Look Over Part Perplexity Time Varius
The mystic sees the ineffable, and the psychopathologist the unspeakable.
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Ineftable Mystic Psychopathology See Unspeakable
People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.
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Ask Criticism Only People Praise Want
The secret to life is meaningless unless you discover it yourself.
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Discover Meaningless Secret Unless Yourself
We seek pitifully to convey to others the treasures of our heart, but they have not the power to accept them, and so we go lonely, side by side but not together, unable to know our fellows and unknown by them.
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Accept Convey Fellow Heart Know Other Power Seek Together Treasure Unable
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
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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Beauty Compose Disgust Idea Live Make Men Only Picture Possible Regard Thing World

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