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There are two good things in life – freedom of thought and freedom of action.

W. Somerset Maugham

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I don’t think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.
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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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I personally prefer freedom of thought. But in England you get neither: you’re ground down by convention. You can’t think as you like and you can’t act as you like. That’s because it’s a democratic nation. I expect America’s worse.
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She loved three things – a joke, a glass of wine, and a handsome man.
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A mother only does her children harm if she makes them the only concern of her life.
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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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Life is so largely controlled by chance that its conduct can be but a perpetual improvisation.
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The most valuable thing I have learned from life is to regret nothing.
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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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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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There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
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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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To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give.
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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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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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As lovers, the difference between men and women is that women can love all day long, but men only at times.
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