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I have an idea that the only thing which makes it possible to regard this world we live in without disgust is the beauty which now and then men create out of the chaos. The pictures they paint, the music they compose, the books they write, and the lives they lead.

W. Somerset Maugham

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The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.
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The beauty of the morning and the radiance of noon are good, but it would be a very silly person who drew the curtains and turned on the light in order to shut out the tranquillity of the evening. Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.
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He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it.
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If forty million people say a foolish thing it does not become a wise one.
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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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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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Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
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I´m not going to bring a child into the world, and love her, and bring her up, just so that some man may want to sleep with her so much that he’s willing to provide her with board and lodging for the rest of her life.
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The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.
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A dictator must fool all the people all the time and there’s only one way to do that, he must also fool himself.
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In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.
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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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Any society that values wealth above freedom will lose its freedom, and will ultimately lose its wealth as well
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I recognize that I am made up of several persons and that the person that at the moment has the upper hand will inevitably give place to another. But which is the real one? All of them or none?
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There is nothing so terrible as the pursuit of art by those who have no talent.
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There’s always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.
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