To recognize it you must repeat the adventure of the artist. It is a melody that he sings to you, and to hear it again in your own heart you want knowledge and sensitiveness and imagination.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMWhen you’re eighteen your emotions are violent, but they’re not durable.
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Impropriety is the soul of wit.
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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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Tolerance is only another name for indifference.
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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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If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.
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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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We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits.
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There are two good things in life – freedom of thought and freedom of action.
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You’re intoxicated by the boundless space.
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When you’re eighteen your emotions are violent, but they’re not durable.
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The future will one day be the present and will seem as unimportant as the present does now.
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The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.
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The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.
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You know, of course, that the Tasmanians, who never committed adultery, are now extinct.
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I wish I could make you see how much fuller the life I offer you is than anything you have a conception of.
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