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Don’t wait for experience to come to you; go out after experience. Experience is your material.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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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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The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
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You’re intoxicated by the boundless space.
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Most people are such fools that it is really no great compliment to say that someone is above the average.
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A mother only does her children harm if she makes them the only concern of her life.
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Impropriety is the soul of wit.
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It’s no good trying to keep up old friendships. It’s painful for both sides. The fact is, one grows out of people, and the only thing is to face it.
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Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.
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It is a nuisance that knowledge can only be acquired by hard work.
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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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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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When you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right.
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The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.
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There is nothing so terrible as the pursuit of art by those who have no talent.
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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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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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The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.
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Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
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It is bad enough to know the past; it would be intolerable to know the future.
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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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I always find it more difficult to say the things I mean than the things I don’t.
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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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Now the answer … is plain, but it is so unpalatable that most men will not face it. There is no reason for life and life has no meaning.
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Often the best way to overcome desire is to satisfy it.
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Dullness is the first requisite of a good husband.
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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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