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To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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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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Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
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Any society that values wealth above freedom will lose its freedom, and will ultimately lose its wealth as well
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In France you get freedom of action: you can do what you like and nobody bothers, but you must think like everybody else. In Germany you must do what everybody else does, but you may think as you choose. They’re both very good things.
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Dullness is the first requisite of a good husband.
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It wasn’t until late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say, ‘I don’t know.’
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When you are reconciled to the fact that each is for himself in the world you will ask less from your fellows. They will not disappoint you, and you will look upon them more charitably.
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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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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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In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.
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Art is a manifestation of emotion, and emotion speaks a language that all may understand.
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The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
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You demand unselfishness from others, which is a preposterous claim that they should sacrifice their desires to yours. Why should they?
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Don’t wait for experience to come to you; go out after experience. Experience is your material.
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The most valuable thing I have learned from life is to regret nothing.
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