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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 most valuable thing I have learned from life is to regret nothing.
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Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
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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 waste a lot of time going down blind alleys if you have no one to lead you.
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The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.
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The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
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Life is so largely controlled by chance that its conduct can be but a perpetual improvisation.
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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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I want a girl because I want to bring her up so that she shan’t make the mistakes I’ve made.
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You demand unselfishness from others, which is a preposterous claim that they should sacrifice their desires to yours. Why should they?
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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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Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.
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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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The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.
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The trouble is that thinking looks like loafing. Who wants to pay people for daydreaming?
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Life isn’t long enough for love and 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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We do not write because we want to; we write because we have to.
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What does democracy come down to? The persuasive power of slogans invented by wily self-seeking politicians.
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My own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror.
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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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Nothing in the world is permanent, and we’re foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we’re still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have 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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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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