The essential element of love is a belief in its own eternity.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMI 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.
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Sometimes a man hits upon a place to which he mysteriously feels that he belongs.
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There is nothing so degrading as the constant anxiety about one’s means of livelihood.
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Failure make people bitter and cruel. Success improves the character of the man.
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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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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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The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity.
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If a man hasn’t what’s necessary to make a woman love him, it’s his fault, not hers.
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Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.
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What do we any of us have but our illusions? And what do we ask of others but that we be allowed to keep them?
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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 wish I could make you see how exciting the life of the spirit is and how rich in experience. It’s illimitable. It’s such a happy life. There’s only one thing like it, when you’re up in a plane by yourself, high, high, and only infinity surrounds you.
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You know, of course, that the Tasmanians, who never committed adultery, are now extinct.
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I’ll give you my opinion of the human race in a nutshell… their heart’s in the right place, but their head is a thoroughly inefficient organ.
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If forty million people say a foolish thing it does not become a wise one.
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Impropriety is the soul of wit.
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