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When you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right.

W. Somerset Maugham

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If you don’t change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?
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Sometimes a man hits upon a place to which he mysteriously feels that he belongs.
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Beauty is something wonderful and strange that the artist fashions out of the chaos of the world in the torment of his soul. And when he has made it, it is not given to all to know it.
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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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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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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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I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.
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The future will one day be the present and will seem as unimportant as the present does now.
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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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It is bad enough to know the past; it would be intolerable to know the future.
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Only a mediocre person is always at his best.
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The trouble is that thinking looks like loafing. Who wants to pay people for daydreaming?
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Men seek but one thing in life — their pleasure.
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We do not write because we want to; we write because we have to.
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We must be very humble. We must see the beauty of quietness. We must go through life so inconspicuously that Fate does not notice us. And let us seek the love of simple, ignorant people. Their ignorance is better than all our knowledge.
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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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