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An unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.

W. Somerset Maugham

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All the words I use in my stories can be found in the dictionary-it’s just a matter of arranging them into the right sentences.
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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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Sometimes a man hits upon a place to which he mysteriously feels that he belongs.
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I don’t think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.
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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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Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
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An unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

Bad Easier Good Habit One Thing Unfortunate
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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To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.
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How can I be reasonable? To me our love was everything and you were my whole life. It is not very pleasant to realize that to you it was only an episode.
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Often the best way to overcome desire is to satisfy it.
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But it may be that the way of life that he has chosen for himself and the peculiar strength and sweetness of his character may have an ever-growing influence over his fellow men so that, long after his death perhaps, it may be realized that there lived in this age a very remarkable creature.
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I wish I could make you see how exciting the life of the spirit is and how rich in experience. It’s illimitable. It’s such a happy life. There’s only one thing like it, when you’re up in a plane by yourself, high, high, and only infinity surrounds you.
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Excite Experience Happy High Illuminate Infinity One Plane Rich Spirit Surround
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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Of all these the richest in beauty is the beautiful life. That is the perfect work of art.
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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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