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The crown of literature is poetry. It is its end and aim. It is the sublimest activity of the human mind. It is the achievement of beauty and delicacy. The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes.

W. Somerset Maugham

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The beauty of the morning and the radiance of noon are good, but it would be a very silly person who drew the curtains and turned on the light in order to shut out the tranquillity of the evening. Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.
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Failure make people bitter and cruel. Success improves the character of the man.
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When you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right.
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Sometimes a man hits upon a place to which he mysteriously feels that he belongs.
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The future will one day be the present and will seem as unimportant as the present does now.
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As the cosmos are in place, so be it with your life.
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A dictator must fool all the people all the time and there’s only one way to do that, he must also fool himself.
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The world is hard and cruel. We are here none knows why, and we go none knows whither.
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If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too.
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The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.
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Tolerance is only another name for indifference.
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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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The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.
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There is nothing so terrible as the pursuit of art by those who have no talent.
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I want a girl because I want to bring her up so that she shan’t make the mistakes I’ve made.
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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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