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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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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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People talk of beauty lightly, and having no feeling for words, they use that one carelessly, so that it loses its force; and the thing it stands for, sharing its name with a hundred trivial objects, is deprived of dignity.
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Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
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Love is what happens to men and women who don’t know each other.
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I don’t think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.
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The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.
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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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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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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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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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We who are of mature age seldom suspect how unmercifully and yet with what insight the very young judge us.
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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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I’d sooner be smashed into a mangled pulp by a bus when we cross the street than look forward to a life like yours.
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The crown of literature is poetry. It is its end and aim. It is the sublimest activity of the human mind. It is the achievement of beauty and delicacy. The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes.
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To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give.
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Life is so largely controlled by chance that its conduct can be but a perpetual improvisation.
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