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Throw yourself into the hurly-burly of life. It doesn’t matter how many mistakes you make, what unhappiness you have to undergo. It is all your material …

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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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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Dullness is the first requisite of a good husband.
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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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Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger.
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When you are reconciled to the fact that each is for himself in the world you will ask less from your fellows. They will not disappoint you, and you will look upon them more charitably.
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When you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right.
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One can be very much in love with a woman without wishing to spend the rest of one’s life with her.
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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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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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Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.
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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 essential element of love is a belief in its own eternity.
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You’re intoxicated by the boundless space.
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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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The trouble is that thinking looks like loafing. Who wants to pay people for daydreaming?
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