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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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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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Each one of us is alone in the world. He is shut in a tower of brass, and can communicate with his fellows only by signs, and the signs have no common value, so that their sense is vague and uncertain.
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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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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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Love is what happens to men and women who don’t know each other.
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He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it.
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The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.
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The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.
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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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If nobody spoke unless he had something to say, the human race would very soon lose the use of speech.
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Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger.
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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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We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.
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When I was young I was amazed at Plutarch’s statement that the elder Cato began at the age of eighty to learn Greek. I am amazed no longer. Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.
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Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
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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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