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The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.

W. Somerset Maugham

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The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.
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You learn more quickly under the guidance of experienced teachers.
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Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
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There is nothing so terrible as the pursuit of art by those who have no talent.
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I personally prefer freedom of thought. But in England you get neither: you’re ground down by convention. You can’t think as you like and you can’t act as you like. That’s because it’s a democratic nation. I expect America’s worse.
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Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.
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In France you get freedom of action: you can do what you like and nobody bothers, but you must think like everybody else. In Germany you must do what everybody else does, but you may think as you choose. They’re both very good things.
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The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.
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We seek pitifully to convey to others the treasures of our heart, but they have not the power to accept them, and so we go lonely, side by side but not together, unable to know our fellows and unknown by them.
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Accept Convey Fellow Heart Know Other Power Seek Together Treasure Unable
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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Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.
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The world is hard and cruel. We are here none knows why, and we go none knows whither.
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A bird in the hand was worth two in the bush, he told her, to which she retorted that a proverb was the last refuge of the mentally destitute.
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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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Impropriety is the soul of wit.
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Failure make people bitter and cruel. Success improves the character of the man.
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