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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.

W. Somerset Maugham

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There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
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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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Each one of us is alone in the world. He is shut in a tower of brass, and can communicate with his fellows only by signs, and the signs have no common value, so that their sense is vague and uncertain.
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Life isn’t long enough for love and art.
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People talk of beauty lightly, and having no feeling for words, they use that one carelessly, so that it loses its force; and the thing it stands for, sharing its name with a hundred trivial objects, is deprived of dignity.
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I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.
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You demand unselfishness from others, which is a preposterous claim that they should sacrifice their desires to yours. Why should they?
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It is bad enough to know the past; it would be intolerable to know the future.
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Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger.
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We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits.
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Defect Friend Know Merit Rather
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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You can do anything in this world if you are prepared to take the consequences.
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You waste a lot of time going down blind alleys if you have no one to lead you.
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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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I always find it more difficult to say the things I mean than the things I don’t.
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The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.
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