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As lovers, the difference between men and women is that women can love all day long, but men only at times.

W. Somerset Maugham

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When I look back upon the girl I was I hate myself. But I never had a chance. I’m going to bring up my daughter so that she’s free and can stand on her own feet.
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I wish I could make you see how exciting the life of the spirit is and how rich in experience. It’s illimitable. It’s such a happy life. There’s only one thing like it, when you’re up in a plane by yourself, high, high, and only infinity surrounds you.
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There are two good things in life – freedom of thought and freedom of action.
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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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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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People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.
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To recognize it you must repeat the adventure of the artist. It is a melody that he sings to you, and to hear it again in your own heart you want knowledge and sensitiveness and imagination.
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It is a nuisance that knowledge can only be acquired by hard work.
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Acquire Hard Work Knowledge Nuisance Only
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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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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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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The future will one day be the present and will seem as unimportant as the present does now.
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Tolerance is only another name for indifference.
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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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Sometimes a man hits upon a place to which he mysteriously feels that he belongs.
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Dullness is the first requisite of a good husband.
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