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The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you.

W. Somerset Maugham

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The world is hard and cruel. We are here none knows why, and we go none knows whither.
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When you are reconciled to the fact that each is for himself in the world you will ask less from your fellows. They will not disappoint you, and you will look upon them more charitably.
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Ask Charitablity Disappoint Each Fellow Himself Less More Reconcile
You know, of course, that the Tasmanians, who never committed adultery, are now extinct.
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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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The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you.
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Book Important Meaning Only Thing You
To recognize it you must repeat the adventure of the artist. It is a melody that he sings to you, and to hear it again in your own heart you want knowledge and sensitiveness and imagination.
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If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.
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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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Any society that values wealth above freedom will lose its freedom, and will ultimately lose its wealth as well
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I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.
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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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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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We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.
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Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.
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One cannot find peace in work or in pleasure, in the world or in a convent, but only in one’s soul.
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Life isn’t long enough for love and art.
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