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Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.
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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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Now the answer … is plain, but it is so unpalatable that most men will not face it. There is no reason for life and life has no meaning.
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I wish I could make you see how exciting the life of the spirit is and how rich in experience. It’s illimitable. It’s such a happy life. There’s only one thing like it, when you’re up in a plane by yourself, high, high, and only infinity surrounds you.
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When you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right.
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If forty million people say a foolish thing it does not become a wise one.
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The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.
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Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger.
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Beauty Ecstasy Simple Hunger
You know, of course, that the Tasmanians, who never committed adultery, are now extinct.
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Of all the hokum with which this country [America] is riddled, the most odd is the common notion that it is free of class distinctions.
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There are times when I look over the various parts of my character with perplexity.
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People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.
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The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.
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The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.
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When I was young I was amazed at Plutarch’s statement that the elder Cato began at the age of eighty to learn Greek. I am amazed no longer. Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.
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