The mystic sees the ineffable, and the psychopathologist the unspeakable.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMBeauty is something wonderful and strange that the artist fashions out of the chaos of the world in the torment of his soul. And when he has made it, it is not given to all to know it.
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Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.
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One can be very much in love with a woman without wishing to spend the rest of one’s life with her.
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They call beautiful a dress, a dog, a sermon; and when they are face to face with Beauty cannot recognise it.
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When you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right.
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Of all these the richest in beauty is the beautiful life. That is the perfect work of art.
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The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.
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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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What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one’s faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one’s memories.
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I recognize that I am made up of several persons and that the person that at the moment has the upper hand will inevitably give place to another. But which is the real one? All of them or none?
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To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give.
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We who are of mature age seldom suspect how unmercifully and yet with what insight the very young judge us.
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Each one of us is alone in the world. He is shut in a tower of brass, and can communicate with his fellows only by signs, and the signs have no common value, so that their sense is vague and uncertain.
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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 world is hard and cruel. We are here none knows why, and we go none knows whither.
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Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.
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