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There is nothing so terrible as the pursuit of art by those who have no talent.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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How can I be reasonable? To me our love was everything and you were my whole life. It is not very pleasant to realize that to you it was only an episode.
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The Almighty can hardly be such a fool as the churches make out.
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Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger.
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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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If forty million people say a foolish thing it does not become a wise one.
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As the cosmos are in place, so be it with your life.
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The beauty of the morning and the radiance of noon are good, but it would be a very silly person who drew the curtains and turned on the light in order to shut out the tranquillity of the evening. Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.
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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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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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If nobody spoke unless he had something to say, the human race would very soon lose the use of speech.
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I personally prefer freedom of thought. But in England you get neither: you’re ground down by convention. You can’t think as you like and you can’t act as you like. That’s because it’s a democratic nation. I expect America’s worse.
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You know, there are two good things in life, freedom of thought and freedom of action.
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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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Tolerance is only another name for indifference.
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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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