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The mystic sees the ineffable, and the psychopathologist the unspeakable.

W. Somerset Maugham

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The most valuable thing I have learned from life is to regret nothing.
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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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When I was young I was amazed at Plutarch’s statement that the elder Cato began at the age of eighty to learn Greek. I am amazed no longer. Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.
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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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Of all these the richest in beauty is the beautiful life. That is the perfect work of art.
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There are two good things in life – freedom of thought and freedom of action.
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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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The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.
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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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If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too.
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Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger.
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A bird in the hand was worth two in the bush, he told her, to which she retorted that a proverb was the last refuge of the mentally destitute.
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