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I don’t think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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Words have weight, sound and appearance; it is only by considering these that you can write a sentence that is good to look at and good to listen to.
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It is a nuisance that knowledge can only be acquired by hard work.
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Often the best way to overcome desire is to satisfy it.
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The tragedy of love is not death or separation. How long do you think it would have been before one or other of them ceased to care?
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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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Life wouldn’t be worth living if I worried over the future as well as the present. When things are at their worst I find something always happens.
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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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As the cosmos are in place, so be it with your life.
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You know, of course, that the Tasmanians, who never committed adultery, are now extinct.
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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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There is nothing so terrible as the pursuit of art by those who have no talent.
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Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.
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To recognize it you must repeat the adventure of the artist. It is a melody that he sings to you, and to hear it again in your own heart you want knowledge and sensitiveness and imagination.
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Don’t wait for experience to come to you; go out after experience. Experience is your material.
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It wasn’t until late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say, ‘I don’t know.’
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