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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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There are times when I look over the various parts of my character with perplexity.
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If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.
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Life is so largely controlled by chance that its conduct can be but a perpetual improvisation.
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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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Unfortunately sometimes one can’t do what one thinks is right without making someone else unhappy.
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They call beautiful a dress, a dog, a sermon; and when they are face to face with Beauty cannot recognise it.
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People talk of beauty lightly, and having no feeling for words, they use that one carelessly, so that it loses its force; and the thing it stands for, sharing its name with a hundred trivial objects, is deprived of dignity.
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The essential element of love is a belief in its own eternity.
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Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.
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Belief Common Contrary Excercise Grow Imagination Mature More Powerful Young
There is nothing so terrible as the pursuit of art by those who have no talent.
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No Nothing Pursuit Talent Terrible Those
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
What do we any of us have but our illusions? And what do we ask of others but that we be allowed to keep them?
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Allow Any Illusion Ask Keep Other Them
Now the answer … is plain, but it is so unpalatable that most men will not face it. There is no reason for life and life has no meaning.
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Answer Face Life Meaning Men Most Plain Reason Unpalatable
The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you.
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Book Important Meaning Only Thing You
If you don’t change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?
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Belief Change Forever Good Life New Will
If nobody spoke unless he had something to say, the human race would very soon lose the use of speech.
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Human Lose Nobody Race Something Soon Speech Spoke Unless Very

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