It was such a beautiful day I decided to stay in bed.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMMy own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror.
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My own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror.
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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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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 mystic sees the ineffable, and the psychopathologist the unspeakable.
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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.
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The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.
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The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity.
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Simplicity and naturalness are the truest marks of distinction.
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It wasn’t until late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say, ‘I don’t know.’
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Often the best way to overcome desire is to satisfy it.
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To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give.
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There is nothing so degrading as the constant anxiety about one’s means of livelihood.
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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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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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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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