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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.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Life isn’t long enough for love and art.
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The Almighty can hardly be such a fool as the churches make out.
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The mystic sees the ineffable, and the psychopathologist the unspeakable.
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Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.
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Of all these the richest in beauty is the beautiful life. That is the perfect work of art.
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The trouble is that thinking looks like loafing. Who wants to pay people for daydreaming?
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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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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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Impropriety is the soul of wit.
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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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Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger.
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In France you get freedom of action: you can do what you like and nobody bothers, but you must think like everybody else. In Germany you must do what everybody else does, but you may think as you choose. They’re both very good things.
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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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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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If a man hasn’t what’s necessary to make a woman love him, it’s his fault, not hers.
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Only a mediocre person is always at his best.
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