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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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From the earliest time the old have rubbed it into the young that they are wiser, and before the young had discovered what nonsense this was they were old too, and it profited them to carry on the imposture.
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If you can tell stories, create characters, devise incidents, and have sincerity and passion, it doesn’t matter a damn how you write.
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Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.
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The secret to life is meaningless unless you discover it yourself.
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Now the answer … is plain, but it is so unpalatable that most men will not face it. There is no reason for life and life has no meaning.
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Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger.
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People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.
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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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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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It’s no use crying over spilt milk, because all of the forces of the universe were bent on spilling it.
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The essential element of love is a belief in its own eternity.
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Nothing in the world is permanent, and we’re foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we’re still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it.
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Often the best way to overcome desire is to satisfy it.
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Impropriety is the soul of wit.
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When a woman loves you she’s not satisfied until she possesses your soul. Because she’s weak, she has a rage for domination, and nothing less will satisfy her.
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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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