Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMDon’t wait for experience to come to you; go out after experience. Experience is your material.
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You’re intoxicated by the boundless space.
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It wasn’t until late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say, ‘I don’t know.’
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When a woman loves you she’s not satisfied until she possesses your soul. Because she’s weak, she has a rage for domination, and nothing less will satisfy her.
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People talk of beauty lightly, and having no feeling for words, they use that one carelessly, so that it loses its force; and the thing it stands for, sharing its name with a hundred trivial objects, is deprived of dignity.
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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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Don’t wait for experience to come to you; go out after experience. Experience is your material.
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To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.
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Tolerance is only another name for indifference.
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Failure make people bitter and cruel. Success improves the character of the man.
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It is a nuisance that knowledge can only be acquired by hard work.
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Life is so largely controlled by chance that its conduct can be but a perpetual improvisation.
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The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you.
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Death doesn’t affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn’t concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.
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The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity.
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To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give.
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