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Of all these the richest in beauty is the beautiful life. That is the perfect work of art.

W. Somerset Maugham

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I wish I could make you see how much fuller the life I offer you is than anything you have a conception of.
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There are two good things in life – freedom of thought and freedom of action.
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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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You know, of course, that the Tasmanians, who never committed adultery, are now extinct.
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The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity.
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The well dressed man is he whose clothes you never notice
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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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One cannot find peace in work or in pleasure, in the world or in a convent, but only in one’s soul.
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Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.
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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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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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The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
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It’s a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.
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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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What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one’s faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one’s memories.
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