There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMThe complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity.
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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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We seek pitifully to convey to others the treasures of our heart, but they have not the power to accept them, and so we go lonely, side by side but not together, unable to know our fellows and unknown by them.
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Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.
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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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One can be very much in love with a woman without wishing to spend the rest of one’s life with her.
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The beauty of the morning and the radiance of noon are good, but it would be a very silly person who drew the curtains and turned on the light in order to shut out the tranquillity of the evening. Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.
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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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To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give.
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Dullness is the first requisite of a good husband.
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When you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right.
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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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The most valuable thing I have learned from life is to regret nothing.
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If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.
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She loved three things – a joke, a glass of wine, and a handsome man.
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I made up my mind long ago that life was too short to do anything for myself that I could pay others to do for me.
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