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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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It is a nuisance that knowledge can only be acquired by hard work.
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You demand unselfishness from others, which is a preposterous claim that they should sacrifice their desires to yours. Why should they?
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The crown of literature is poetry. It is its end and aim. It is the sublimest activity of the human mind. It is the achievement of beauty and delicacy. The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes.
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It’s no use crying over spilt milk, because all of the forces of the universe were bent on spilling it.
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It was such a beautiful day I decided to stay in bed.
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When you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right.
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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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From the earliest time the old have rubbed it into the young that they are wiser, and before the young had discovered what nonsense this was they were old too, and it profited them to carry on the imposture.
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The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.
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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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My own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror.
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If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too.
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We seek pitifully to convey to others the treasures of our heart, but they have not the power to accept them, and so we go lonely, side by side but not together, unable to know our fellows and unknown by them.
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The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.
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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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We do not write because we want to; we write because we have to.
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