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When you’re eighteen your emotions are violent, but they’re not durable.

W. Somerset Maugham

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I´m not going to bring a child into the world, and love her, and bring her up, just so that some man may want to sleep with her so much that he’s willing to provide her with board and lodging for the rest of her life.
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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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You know, there are two good things in life, freedom of thought and freedom of action.
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When I was young I was amazed at Plutarch’s statement that the elder Cato began at the age of eighty to learn Greek. I am amazed no longer. Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.
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The most valuable thing I have learned from life is to regret nothing.
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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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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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I always find it more difficult to say the things I mean than the things I don’t.
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But it may be that the way of life that he has chosen for himself and the peculiar strength and sweetness of his character may have an ever-growing influence over his fellow men so that, long after his death perhaps, it may be realized that there lived in this age a very remarkable creature.
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It is bad enough to know the past; it would be intolerable to know the future.
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The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.
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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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When you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right.
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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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If a man hasn’t what’s necessary to make a woman love him, it’s his fault, not hers.
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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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