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Life isn’t long enough for love and art.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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Everything Life Love Plesant Realize Reasonable Whole You
It is a nuisance that knowledge can only be acquired by hard work.
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Acquire Hard Work Knowledge Nuisance Only
Simplicity and naturalness are the truest marks of distinction.
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Distinction Mark Naturalness Simplicity Truest
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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Bad Easier Good Habit One Thing Unfortunate
You know, there are two good things in life, freedom of thought and freedom of action.
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Action Freedom Good Know Life Thing
Why should you think that beauty, which is the most precious thing in the world, lies like a stone on the beach for the careless passer-by to pick up idly?
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Beauty Careless Ebach Lie Like Mood Precious Should Stone Thing Think World
A mother only does her children harm if she makes them the only concern of her life.
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Children Concern Harm Life Make Mother
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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All Another Hand Inevitably Made Moment None Person Place Recognize Several Upper
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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Bring Life Lodging Make Man One Possible Rst Sleep Some Thing Willing
The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.
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Cease Great Love Men Perish Tragedy
Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger.
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Beauty Ecstasy Simple Hunger
The prestige you acquire by being able to tell your friends that you know famous men proves only that you are yourself of small account.
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Able Account Acquire Bring Famous Friend Know Men Prestige Prove Small Tell
The essential element of love is a belief in its own eternity.
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Belief Element Essential Eternity Love Own
What does democracy come down to? The persuasive power of slogans invented by wily self-seeking politicians.
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Come Democracy Down Invent Persuasive Politician Power Seek Self Slogan
Any society that values wealth above freedom will lose its freedom, and will ultimately lose its wealth as well
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Freedom Lose Society Ultimately Value Wealth Well
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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Artist Beauty Chaos Fashion Given Know Made Something Soul Strange Torment World

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