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I always find it more difficult to say the things I mean than the things I don’t.

W. Somerset Maugham

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There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
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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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There are two good things in life – freedom of thought and freedom of action.
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Men seek but one thing in life — their pleasure.
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Oh, it’s always the same,’ she sighed, ‘if you want men to behave well to you, you must be beastly to them; if you treat them decently they make you suffer for it.
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Life is so largely controlled by chance that its conduct can be but a perpetual improvisation.
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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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What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one’s faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one’s memories.
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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 fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.
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The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
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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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The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.
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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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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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