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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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All the words I use in my stories can be found in the dictionary-it’s just a matter of arranging them into the right sentences.
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If you don’t change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?
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Unfortunately sometimes one can’t do what one thinks is right without making someone else unhappy.
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It is bad enough to know the past; it would be intolerable to know the future.
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What does democracy come down to? The persuasive power of slogans invented by wily self-seeking politicians.
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I´m not going to bring a child into the world, and love her, and bring her up, just so that some man may want to sleep with her so much that he’s willing to provide her with board and lodging for the rest of her life.
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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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Impropriety is the soul of wit.
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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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We who are of mature age seldom suspect how unmercifully and yet with what insight the very young judge us.
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But it may be that the way of life that he has chosen for himself and the peculiar strength and sweetness of his character may have an ever-growing influence over his fellow men so that, long after his death perhaps, it may be realized that there lived in this age a very remarkable creature.
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What do we any of us have but our illusions? And what do we ask of others but that we be allowed to keep them?
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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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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.
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The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.
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There is nothing so terrible as the pursuit of art by those who have no talent.
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