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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?

W. Somerset Maugham

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We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits.
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The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.
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One cannot find peace in work or in pleasure, in the world or in a convent, but only in one’s soul.
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The Almighty can hardly be such a fool as the churches make out.
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Almighty Church Fool Harder Make Out
Oh, it’s always the same,’ she sighed, ‘if you want men to behave well to you, you must be beastly to them; if you treat them decently they make you suffer for it.
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A bird in the hand was worth two in the bush, he told her, to which she retorted that a proverb was the last refuge of the mentally destitute.
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Most people are such fools that it is really no great compliment to say that someone is above the average.
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The tragedy of love is not death or separation. How long do you think it would have been before one or other of them ceased to care?
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There is nothing so terrible as the pursuit of art by those who have no talent.
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The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.
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Simplicity and naturalness are the truest marks of distinction.
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Of all these the richest in beauty is the beautiful life. That is the perfect work of art.
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Sometimes a man hits upon a place to which he mysteriously feels that he belongs.
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My own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror.
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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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Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.
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