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The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Unfortunately sometimes one can’t do what one thinks is right without making someone else unhappy.
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The mystic sees the ineffable, and the psychopathologist the unspeakable.
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We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.
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Each one of us is alone in the world. He is shut in a tower of brass, and can communicate with his fellows only by signs, and the signs have no common value, so that their sense is vague and uncertain.
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Alone Brass Communicate Each Fellow Lower One Only Sign Student World
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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It is bad enough to know the past; it would be intolerable to know the future.
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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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It’s a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.
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People talk of beauty lightly, and having no feeling for words, they use that one carelessly, so that it loses its force; and the thing it stands for, sharing its name with a hundred trivial objects, is deprived of dignity.
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Life is so largely controlled by chance that its conduct can be but a perpetual improvisation.
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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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The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you.
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Failure make people bitter and cruel. Success improves the character of the man.
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Character Cruel Failure Improve Make Man People Sucess
It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one’s dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.
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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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Don’t wait for experience to come to you; go out after experience. Experience is your material.
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