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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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There are two good things in life – freedom of thought and freedom of action.
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A mother only does her children harm if she makes them the only concern of her life.
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Unfortunately sometimes one can’t do what one thinks is right without making someone else unhappy.
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She loved three things – a joke, a glass of wine, and a handsome man.
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Now the answer … is plain, but it is so unpalatable that most men will not face it. There is no reason for life and life has no meaning.
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The trouble is that thinking looks like loafing. Who wants to pay people for daydreaming?
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Dullness is the first requisite of a good husband.
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You learn more quickly under the guidance of experienced teachers.
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Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger.
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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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You know, there are two good things in life, freedom of thought and freedom of action.
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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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When you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right.
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What do we any of us have but our illusions? And what do we ask of others but that we be allowed to keep them?
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As the cosmos are in place, so be it with your life.
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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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He is not famous. It may be that he never will be. It may be that when his life at last comes to an end he will leave no more trace of his sojourn on earth than a stone thrown into a river leaves on the surface of the water.
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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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I want a girl because I want to bring her up so that she shan’t make the mistakes I’ve made.
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Oh, it is dreadfully bitter to look at a woman whom you have loved with all your heart and soul, so that you felt you could not bear to let her out of your sight, and realize that you would not mind if you never saw her again. The tragedy of love is indifference.
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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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We seek pitifully to convey to others the treasures of our heart, but they have not the power to accept them, and so we go lonely, side by side but not together, unable to know our fellows and unknown by them.
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The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you.
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To recognize it you must repeat the adventure of the artist. It is a melody that he sings to you, and to hear it again in your own heart you want knowledge and sensitiveness and imagination.
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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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There is nothing so degrading as the constant anxiety about one’s means of livelihood.
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A bird in the hand was worth two in the bush, he told her, to which she retorted that a proverb was the last refuge of the mentally destitute.
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