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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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Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
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I am told that today rather more than 60 per cent of the men who go to university go on a Government grant. This is a new class that has entered upon the scene. It is the white-collar proletariat. They do not go to university to acquire culture but to get a job, and when they have got one, scamp it.
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Throw yourself into the hurly-burly of life. It doesn’t matter how many mistakes you make, what unhappiness you have to undergo. It is all your material …
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It is bad enough to know the past; it would be intolerable to know the future.
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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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Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger.
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The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.
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When you’re eighteen your emotions are violent, but they’re not durable.
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Impropriety is the soul of wit.
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If you don’t change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?
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Love is what happens to men and women who don’t know each other.
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It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one’s dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.
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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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If you can tell stories, create characters, devise incidents, and have sincerity and passion, it doesn’t matter a damn how you write.
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It is dangerous to let the public behind the scenes. They are easily disillusioned and then they are angry with you, for it was the illusion they loved.
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