The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMAn unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.
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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.
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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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From the earliest time the old have rubbed it into the young that they are wiser, and before the young had discovered what nonsense this was they were old too, and it profited them to carry on the imposture.
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I’d sooner be smashed into a mangled pulp by a bus when we cross the street than look forward to a life like yours.
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There’s always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.
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Why should you think that beauty, which is the most precious thing in the world, lies like a stone on the beach for the careless passer-by to pick up idly?
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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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I am told that today rather more than 60 per cent of the men who go to university go on a Government grant. This is a new class that has entered upon the scene. It is the white-collar proletariat. They do not go to university to acquire culture but to get a job, and when they have got one, scamp it.
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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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When you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right.
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I wish I could make you see how much fuller the life I offer you is than anything you have a conception of.
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He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it.
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Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.
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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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A dictator must fool all the people all the time and there’s only one way to do that, he must also fool himself.
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