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Life is so largely controlled by chance that its conduct can be but a perpetual improvisation.

W. Somerset Maugham

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To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give.
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Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
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The crown of literature is poetry. It is its end and aim. It is the sublimest activity of the human mind. It is the achievement of beauty and delicacy. The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes.
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Now it is a funny thing about life. If you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it. If you utterly decline to make do with what you can get, then somehow or other, you are very likely to get what you want.
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If nobody spoke unless he had something to say, the human race would very soon lose the use of speech.
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If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too.
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Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.
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I wish I could make you see how exciting the life of the spirit is and how rich in experience. It’s illimitable. It’s such a happy life. There’s only one thing like it, when you’re up in a plane by yourself, high, high, and only infinity surrounds you.
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Excite Experience Happy High Illuminate Infinity One Plane Rich Spirit Surround
The beauty of the morning and the radiance of noon are good, but it would be a very silly person who drew the curtains and turned on the light in order to shut out the tranquillity of the evening. Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.
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Words have weight, sound and appearance; it is only by considering these that you can write a sentence that is good to look at and good to listen to.
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Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.
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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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Impropriety is the soul of wit.
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There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
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If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.
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As the cosmos are in place, so be it with your life.
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