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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.

W. Somerset Maugham

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To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give.
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The most valuable thing I have learned from life is to regret nothing.
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Often the best way to overcome desire is to satisfy it.
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The secret to life is meaningless unless you discover it yourself.
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We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.
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There are times when I look over the various parts of my character with perplexity.
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When I was young I was amazed at Plutarch’s statement that the elder Cato began at the age of eighty to learn Greek. I am amazed no longer. Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.
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From the earliest time the old have rubbed it into the young that they are wiser, and before the young had discovered what nonsense this was they were old too, and it profited them to carry on the imposture.
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All the words I use in my stories can be found in the dictionary-it’s just a matter of arranging them into the right sentences.
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Why should you think that beauty, which is the most precious thing in the world, lies like a stone on the beach for the careless passer-by to pick up idly?
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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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I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.
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if you’d ever had a grown-up daughter you’d know that by comparison a bucking steer is easy to manage. And as to knowing what goes on inside her – well, it’s much better to pretend you’re the simple, innocent old fool she almost certainly takes you for.
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Sometimes a man hits upon a place to which he mysteriously feels that he belongs.
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There is nothing so degrading as the constant anxiety about one’s means of livelihood.
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