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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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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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When I was young I was amazed at Plutarch’s statement that the elder Cato began at the age of eighty to learn Greek. I am amazed no longer. Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.
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Art is a manifestation of emotion, and emotion speaks a language that all may understand.
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Dullness is the first requisite of a good husband.
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If it is necessary sometimes to lie to others, it is always despicable to lie to oneself.
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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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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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Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.
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It was such a beautiful day I decided to stay in bed.
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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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When you’re eighteen your emotions are violent, but they’re not durable.
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The essential element of love is a belief in its own eternity.
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The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.
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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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You will find as you grow older that the first thing needful to make the world a tolerable place to live in is to recognize the inevitable selfishness of humanity.
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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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