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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.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.
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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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Impropriety is the soul of wit.
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if you’d ever had a grown-up daughter you’d know that by comparison a bucking steer is easy to manage. And as to knowing what goes on inside her – well, it’s much better to pretend you’re the simple, innocent old fool she almost certainly takes you for.
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The well dressed man is he whose clothes you never notice
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When I look back upon the girl I was I hate myself. But I never had a chance. I’m going to bring up my daughter so that she’s free and can stand on her own feet.
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There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
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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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There is nothing so degrading as the constant anxiety about one’s means of livelihood.
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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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It was such a beautiful day I decided to stay in bed.
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The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you.
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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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Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
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