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There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.

W. Somerset Maugham

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There’s always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.
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Always Himself Let Love Loved One
The well dressed man is he whose clothes you never notice
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Clothes Dress Man never Notice
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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Beauty Compose Disgust Idea Live Make Men Only Picture Possible Regard Thing World
Beauty 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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Artist Beauty Chaos Fashion Given Know Made Something Soul Strange Torment World
I don’t think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.
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Everlasting Matter Past Present Think
It’s no use crying over spilt milk, because all of the forces of the universe were bent on spilling it.
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Bent Cry Force Milk Over Spill Spilt Universe Use
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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Beauty Careless Ebach Lie Like Mood Precious Should Stone Thing Think World
There are two good things in life – freedom of thought and freedom of action.
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Action Freedom Good Thing Thought Two
It was such a beautiful day I decided to stay in bed.
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Beautiful Bed Day Decide Stau Such
You can do anything in this world if you are prepared to take the consequences.
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Anything Consequences Prepare Take World
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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Beauty Humble Ignorance Inconspicuously Knowledge Love Notice Outness People Simple
The essential element of love is a belief in its own eternity.
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Belief Element Essential Eternity Love Own
Life isn’t long enough for love and art.
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Art Enough Life Long Love
The prestige you acquire by being able to tell your friends that you know famous men proves only that you are yourself of small account.
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Able Account Acquire Bring Famous Friend Know Men Prestige Prove Small Tell
Words have weight, sound and appearance; it is only by considering these that you can write a sentence that is good to look at and good to listen to.
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Appearance Consider Good Listen Look Only Sentence Sound Weight Word
You will find as you grow older that the first thing needful to make the world a tolerable place to live in is to recognize the inevitable selfishness of humanity.
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First Grow Inevitable Make Needful Older Place Recognize Selfishness Thing Tolerable World

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