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Now it is a funny thing about life. If you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it. If you utterly decline to make do with what you can get, then somehow or other, you are very likely to get what you want.

W. Somerset Maugham

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If nobody spoke unless he had something to say, the human race would very soon lose the use of speech.
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You’re intoxicated by the boundless space.
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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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I personally prefer freedom of thought. But in England you get neither: you’re ground down by convention. You can’t think as you like and you can’t act as you like. That’s because it’s a democratic nation. I expect America’s worse.
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We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits.
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Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
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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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I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.
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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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You can do anything in this world if you are prepared to take the consequences.
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The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.
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They call beautiful a dress, a dog, a sermon; and when they are face to face with Beauty cannot recognise it.
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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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Don’t wait for experience to come to you; go out after experience. Experience is your material.
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We who are of mature age seldom suspect how unmercifully and yet with what insight the very young judge us.
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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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