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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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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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She loved three things – a joke, a glass of wine, and a handsome man.
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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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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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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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Life is so largely controlled by chance that its conduct can be but a perpetual improvisation.
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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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The most valuable thing I have learned from life is to regret nothing.
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The essential element of love is a belief in its own eternity.
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There are times when I look over the various parts of my character with perplexity.
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But it may be that the way of life that he has chosen for himself and the peculiar strength and sweetness of his character may have an ever-growing influence over his fellow men so that, long after his death perhaps, it may be realized that there lived in this age a very remarkable creature.
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There is nothing so terrible as the pursuit of art by those who have no talent.
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You will find as you grow older that the first thing needful to make the world a tolerable place to live in is to recognize the inevitable selfishness of humanity.
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The crown of literature is poetry. It is its end and aim. It is the sublimest activity of the human mind. It is the achievement of beauty and delicacy. The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes.
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It was such a beautiful day I decided to stay in bed.
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To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give.
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