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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.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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Life is so largely controlled by chance that its conduct can be but a perpetual improvisation.
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You know, of course, that the Tasmanians, who never committed adultery, are now extinct.
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The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.
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There’s always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.
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The trouble is that thinking looks like loafing. Who wants to pay people for daydreaming?
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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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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 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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I made up my mind long ago that life was too short to do anything for myself that I could pay others to do for me.
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I wish I could make you see how much fuller the life I offer you is than anything you have a conception of.
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There is a sort of man who pays no attention to his good actions, but is tormented by his bad ones. This is the type that most often writes about himself.
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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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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 future will one day be the present and will seem as unimportant as the present does now.
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People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.
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