Nothing in the world is permanent, and we’re foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we’re still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMSimplicity and naturalness are the truest marks of distinction.
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To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give.
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When a woman loves you she’s not satisfied until she possesses your soul. Because she’s weak, she has a rage for domination, and nothing less will satisfy her.
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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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The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.
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The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.
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What does democracy come down to? The persuasive power of slogans invented by wily self-seeking politicians.
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Impropriety is the soul of wit.
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There is a sort of man who pays no attention to his good actions, but is tormented by his bad ones. This is the type that most often writes about himself.
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Death doesn’t affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn’t concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.
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To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.
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If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.
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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 forty million people say a foolish thing it does not become a wise one.
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The trouble is that thinking looks like loafing. Who wants to pay people for daydreaming?
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Simplicity and naturalness are the truest marks of distinction.
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