Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMOne 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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We must be very humble. We must see the beauty of quietness. We must go through life so inconspicuously that Fate does not notice us. And let us seek the love of simple, ignorant people. Their ignorance is better than all our knowledge.
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In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.
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I am told that today rather more than 60 per cent of the men who go to university go on a Government grant. This is a new class that has entered upon the scene. It is the white-collar proletariat. They do not go to university to acquire culture but to get a job, and when they have got one, scamp it.
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It was such a beautiful day I decided to stay in bed.
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Sometimes a man hits upon a place to which he mysteriously feels that he belongs.
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Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
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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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It’s no good trying to keep up old friendships. It’s painful for both sides. The fact is, one grows out of people, and the only thing is to face it.
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It is dangerous to let the public behind the scenes. They are easily disillusioned and then they are angry with you, for it was the illusion they loved.
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If nobody spoke unless he had something to say, the human race would very soon lose the use of speech.
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It’s a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.
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But it may be that the way of life that he has chosen for himself and the peculiar strength and sweetness of his character may have an ever-growing influence over his fellow men so that, long after his death perhaps, it may be realized that there lived in this age a very remarkable creature.
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Now it is a funny thing about life. If you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it. If you utterly decline to make do with what you can get, then somehow or other, you are very likely to get what you want.
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The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you.
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You know, of course, that the Tasmanians, who never committed adultery, are now extinct.
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