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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.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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You can do anything in this world if you are prepared to take the consequences.
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Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.
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The prestige you acquire by being able to tell your friends that you know famous men proves only that you are yourself of small account.
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Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.
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Life is so largely controlled by chance that its conduct can be but a perpetual improvisation.
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Often the best way to overcome desire is to satisfy it.
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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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Accept Convey Fellow Heart Know Other Power Seek Together Treasure Unable

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