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It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one’s dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.

W. Somerset Maugham

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The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you.
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If you can tell stories, create characters, devise incidents, and have sincerity and passion, it doesn’t matter a damn how you write.
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It is bad enough to know the past; it would be intolerable to know the future.
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Oh, it’s always the same,’ she sighed, ‘if you want men to behave well to you, you must be beastly to them; if you treat them decently they make you suffer for it.
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I recognize that I am made up of several persons and that the person that at the moment has the upper hand will inevitably give place to another. But which is the real one? All of them or none?
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When you are reconciled to the fact that each is for himself in the world you will ask less from your fellows. They will not disappoint you, and you will look upon them more charitably.
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Ask Charitablity Disappoint Each Fellow Himself Less More Reconcile
If you don’t change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?
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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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There are times when I look over the various parts of my character with perplexity.
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If it is necessary sometimes to lie to others, it is always despicable to lie to oneself.
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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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When you’re eighteen your emotions are violent, but they’re not durable.
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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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My own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror.
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Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger.
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The future will one day be the present and will seem as unimportant as the present does now.
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