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When you’re eighteen your emotions are violent, but they’re not durable.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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Impropriety is the soul of wit.
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The secret to life is meaningless unless you discover it yourself.
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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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An unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.
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The prestige you acquire by being able to tell your friends that you know famous men proves only that you are yourself of small account.
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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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I want a girl because I want to bring her up so that she shan’t make the mistakes I’ve made.
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Art is a manifestation of emotion, and emotion speaks a language that all may understand.
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