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Life wouldn’t be worth living if I worried over the future as well as the present. When things are at their worst I find something always happens.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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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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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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You know, there are two good things in life, freedom of thought and freedom of action.
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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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Most people are such fools that it is really no great compliment to say that someone is above the average.
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Of all the hokum with which this country [America] is riddled, the most odd is the common notion that it is free of class distinctions.
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You waste a lot of time going down blind alleys if you have no one to lead you.
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When you are reconciled to the fact that each is for himself in the world you will ask less from your fellows. They will not disappoint you, and you will look upon them more charitably.
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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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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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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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I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.
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To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give.
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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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Nothing in the world is permanent, and we’re foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we’re still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it.
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The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.
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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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Life wouldn’t be worth living if I worried over the future as well as the present. When things are at their worst I find something always happens.
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The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.
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You learn more quickly under the guidance of experienced teachers.
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I wish I could make you see how much fuller the life I offer you is than anything you have a conception of.
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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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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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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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The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.
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