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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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They call beautiful a dress, a dog, a sermon; and when they are face to face with Beauty cannot recognise it.
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Beautiful Call Dog Dress Face Recognise Sermon
I always find it more difficult to say the things I mean than the things I don’t.
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Always Difficult Mean More Say Thing
Only a mediocre person is always at his best.
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Best Mediocre Only
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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Demand Desire Other Preposterous Sacrifice Should Unselfishness
We do not write because we want to; we write because we have to.
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Because Have Want Write
Of all the hokum with which this country [America] is riddled, the most odd is the common notion that it is free of class distinctions.
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Clase Common Country Destruction Free Most Odd People Person Riddle
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
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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Anything Ask Delight Foolish Last More Nothing Permanent World
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.
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Beauty Compose Disgust Idea Live Make Men Only Picture Possible Regard Thing World
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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Allow Any Illusion Ask Keep Other Them
The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity.
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Age Complete Include Maturity Old Pattern Perfect Young
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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Chance Continue Happy Love Person Same Year
Tolerance is only another name for indifference.
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Another Indifference Name Only Tolerance
When you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right.
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Kindness People Right Show Take Young
The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.
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Fact Great Guarantee Many People Something Truth
Life isn’t long enough for love and art.
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Art Enough Life Long Love
If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.
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Breakfast Country Eat Three Want Well
I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.
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Comfortable Conduct Frame Humorous Imagine Mind More Resignation
Don’t wait for experience to come to you; go out after experience. Experience is your material.
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After Come Experience Material Wait You
When I look back upon the girl I was I hate myself. But I never had a chance. I’m going to bring up my daughter so that she’s free and can stand on her own feet.
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Chance Daughter Feel Girl Hate Look Own Stand Upon
Failure make people bitter and cruel. Success improves the character of the man.
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Character Cruel Failure Improve Make Man People Sucess
As lovers, the difference between men and women is that women can love all day long, but men only at times.
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Difference Long Love Men Time Women
The well dressed man is he whose clothes you never notice
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Clothes Dress Man never Notice
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
Simplicity and naturalness are the truest marks of distinction.
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Distinction Mark Naturalness Simplicity Truest
It’s a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.
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Accept Best Funny Get Life Often Refuse Thing
For my part I cannot believe in a God who is angry with me because I do not believe in him. I cannot believe in a God who is less tolerant than I. I cannot believe in a God who has neither humour nor common sense.
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Angry Believe God Les Part Than Tolerant

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