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Why should you think that beauty, which is the most precious thing in the world, lies like a stone on the beach for the careless passer-by to pick up idly?

W. Somerset Maugham

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I have an idea that the only thing which makes it possible to regard this world we live in without disgust is the beauty which now and then men create out of the chaos. The pictures they paint, the music they compose, the books they write, and the lives they lead.
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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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Most people are such fools that it is really no great compliment to say that someone is above the average.
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When you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right.
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In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.
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For my part I cannot believe in a God who is angry with me because I do not believe in him. I cannot believe in a God who is less tolerant than I. I cannot believe in a God who has neither humour nor common sense.
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Death doesn’t affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn’t concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.
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In France you get freedom of action: you can do what you like and nobody bothers, but you must think like everybody else. In Germany you must do what everybody else does, but you may think as you choose. They’re both very good things.
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As the cosmos are in place, so be it with your life.
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I’d sooner be smashed into a mangled pulp by a bus when we cross the street than look forward to a life like yours.
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To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give.
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The beauty of the morning and the radiance of noon are good, but it would be a very silly person who drew the curtains and turned on the light in order to shut out the tranquillity of the evening. Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.
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A dictator must fool all the people all the time and there’s only one way to do that, he must also fool himself.
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A mother only does her children harm if she makes them the only concern of her life.
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Art is a manifestation of emotion, and emotion speaks a language that all may understand.
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To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.
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