It was such a beautiful day I decided to stay in bed.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMI always find it more difficult to say the things I mean than the things I don’t.
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I made up my mind long ago that life was too short to do anything for myself that I could pay others to do for me.
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You’re intoxicated by the boundless space.
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Men seek but one thing in life — their pleasure.
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There is nothing so terrible as the pursuit of art by those who have no talent.
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It was such a beautiful day I decided to stay in bed.
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You know, there are two good things in life, freedom of thought and freedom of action.
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Life wouldn’t be worth living if I worried over the future as well as the present. When things are at their worst I find something always happens.
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An unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.
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Only a mediocre person is always at his best.
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I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.
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Beauty is something wonderful and strange that the artist fashions out of the chaos of the world in the torment of his soul. And when he has made it, it is not given to all to know it.
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You know, of course, that the Tasmanians, who never committed adultery, are now extinct.
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It wasn’t until late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say, ‘I don’t know.’
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The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you.
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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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