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I recognize that I am made up of several persons and that the person that at the moment has the upper hand will inevitably give place to another. But which is the real one? All of them or none?

W. Somerset Maugham

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I personally prefer freedom of thought. But in England you get neither: you’re ground down by convention. You can’t think as you like and you can’t act as you like. That’s because it’s a democratic nation. I expect America’s worse.
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As the cosmos are in place, so be it with your life.
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To recognize it you must repeat the adventure of the artist. It is a melody that he sings to you, and to hear it again in your own heart you want knowledge and sensitiveness and imagination.
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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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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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If a man hasn’t what’s necessary to make a woman love him, it’s his fault, not hers.
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You’re intoxicated by the boundless space.
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Most people are such fools that it is really no great compliment to say that someone is above the average.
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You can do anything in this world if you are prepared to take the consequences.
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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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The trouble is that thinking looks like loafing. Who wants to pay people for daydreaming?
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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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I don’t think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.
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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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