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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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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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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 complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity.
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I´m not going to bring a child into the world, and love her, and bring her up, just so that some man may want to sleep with her so much that he’s willing to provide her with board and lodging for the rest of her life.
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I have an idea that the only thing which makes it possible to regard this world we live in without disgust is the beauty which now and then men create out of the chaos. The pictures they paint, the music they compose, the books they write, and the lives they lead.
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I’ll give you my opinion of the human race in a nutshell… their heart’s in the right place, but their head is a thoroughly inefficient organ.
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Failure make people bitter and cruel. Success improves the character of the man.
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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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The trouble is that thinking looks like loafing. Who wants to pay people for daydreaming?
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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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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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If a man hasn’t what’s necessary to make a woman love him, it’s his fault, not hers.
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Fault Her Man Necessary Woman
I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.
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if you’d ever had a grown-up daughter you’d know that by comparison a bucking steer is easy to manage. And as to knowing what goes on inside her – well, it’s much better to pretend you’re the simple, innocent old fool she almost certainly takes you for.
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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
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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We who are of mature age seldom suspect how unmercifully and yet with what insight the very young judge us.
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There are two good things in life – freedom of thought and freedom of action.
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There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
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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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When you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right.
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You’re intoxicated by the boundless space.
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Of all these the richest in beauty is the beautiful life. That is the perfect work of art.
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There’s always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.
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If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.
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Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger.
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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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