Any society that values wealth above freedom will lose its freedom, and will ultimately lose its wealth as well
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMBeauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger.
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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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Love is what happens to men and women who don’t know each other.
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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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Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger.
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The world is hard and cruel. We are here none knows why, and we go none knows whither.
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You demand unselfishness from others, which is a preposterous claim that they should sacrifice their desires to yours. Why should they?
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How can I be reasonable? To me our love was everything and you were my whole life. It is not very pleasant to realize that to you it was only an episode.
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Only a mediocre person is always at his best.
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It is a nuisance that knowledge can only be acquired by hard work.
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Life is so largely controlled by chance that its conduct can be but a perpetual improvisation.
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They have no manners and are woefully unable to deal with any social predicament. Their idea of a celebration is to go to a public house and drink six beers. They are mean, malicious and envious . They are scum.
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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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The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.
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The mystic sees the ineffable, and the psychopathologist the unspeakable.
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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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