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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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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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It is bad enough to know the past; it would be intolerable to know the future.
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One cannot find peace in work or in pleasure, in the world or in a convent, but only in one’s soul.
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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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If forty million people say a foolish thing it does not become a wise one.
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As lovers, the difference between men and women is that women can love all day long, but men only at times.
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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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We do not write because we want to; we write because we have to.
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To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.
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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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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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Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.
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One can be very much in love with a woman without wishing to spend the rest of one’s life with her.
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Death doesn’t affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn’t concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.
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Now it is a funny thing about life. If you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it. If you utterly decline to make do with what you can get, then somehow or other, you are very likely to get what you want.
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