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Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.

W. Somerset Maugham

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If you don’t change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?
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if you’d ever had a grown-up daughter you’d know that by comparison a bucking steer is easy to manage. And as to knowing what goes on inside her – well, it’s much better to pretend you’re the simple, innocent old fool she almost certainly takes you for.
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When you’re eighteen your emotions are violent, but they’re not durable.
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The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.
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Cease Great Love Men Perish Tragedy
We must be very humble. We must see the beauty of quietness. We must go through life so inconspicuously that Fate does not notice us. And let us seek the love of simple, ignorant people. Their ignorance is better than all our knowledge.
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Beauty Humble Ignorance Inconspicuously Knowledge Love Notice Outness People Simple
Sometimes a man hits upon a place to which he mysteriously feels that he belongs.
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Belongs Feel Man Mysteriously Place Sometimes
It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one’s dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.
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Ask Dignity Enough Frank Generous Independent One Preserve Unhamper Wealth Work
Life isn’t long enough for love and art.
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Art Enough Life Long Love
You can do anything in this world if you are prepared to take the consequences.
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Anything Consequences Prepare Take World
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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A dictator must fool all the people all the time and there’s only one way to do that, he must also fool himself.
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The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you.
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Book Important Meaning Only Thing You
The world is hard and cruel. We are here none knows why, and we go none knows whither.
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Cruel Hard Know None Whither World
Of all the hokum with which this country [America] is riddled, the most odd is the common notion that it is free of class distinctions.
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Clase Common Country Destruction Free Most Odd People Person Riddle
I am told that today rather more than 60 per cent of the men who go to university go on a Government grant. This is a new class that has entered upon the scene. It is the white-collar proletariat. They do not go to university to acquire culture but to get a job, and when they have got one, scamp it.
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Acquire Class Culture Enter Government Grant Men More Percent Portrait Rather Scene Sixty Today Told University
Of all these the richest in beauty is the beautiful life. That is the perfect work of art.
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All Art Beautiful Beauty Perfect Richest Work

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