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The trouble is that thinking looks like loafing. Who wants to pay people for daydreaming?

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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Dullness is the first requisite of a good husband.
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Unfortunately sometimes one can’t do what one thinks is right without making someone else unhappy.
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It is a nuisance that knowledge can only be acquired by hard work.
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It is bad enough to know the past; it would be intolerable to know the future.
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You learn more quickly under the guidance of experienced teachers.
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Nothing in the world is permanent, and we’re foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we’re still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it.
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Words have weight, sound and appearance; it is only by considering these that you can write a sentence that is good to look at and good to listen to.
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The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you.
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If you can tell stories, create characters, devise incidents, and have sincerity and passion, it doesn’t matter a damn how you write.
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The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.
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There is a sort of man who pays no attention to his good actions, but is tormented by his bad ones. This is the type that most often writes about himself.
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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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Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
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You know, there are two good things in life, freedom of thought and freedom of action.
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I made up my mind long ago that life was too short to do anything for myself that I could pay others to do for me.
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