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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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Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
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Now the answer … is plain, but it is so unpalatable that most men will not face it. There is no reason for life and life has no meaning.
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Oh, it’s always the same,’ she sighed, ‘if you want men to behave well to you, you must be beastly to them; if you treat them decently they make you suffer for it.
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It’s no good trying to keep up old friendships. It’s painful for both sides. The fact is, one grows out of people, and the only thing is to face it.
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It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one’s dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.
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Art is a manifestation of emotion, and emotion speaks a language that all may understand.
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There’s always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.
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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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There are times when I look over the various parts of my character with perplexity.
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The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.
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We do not write because we want to; we write because we have to.
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Life is so largely controlled by chance that its conduct can be but a perpetual improvisation.
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Nothing in the world is permanent, and we’re foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we’re still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it.
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It is a nuisance that knowledge can only be acquired by hard work.
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if you’d ever had a grown-up daughter you’d know that by comparison a bucking steer is easy to manage. And as to knowing what goes on inside her – well, it’s much better to pretend you’re the simple, innocent old fool she almost certainly takes you for.
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When you are reconciled to the fact that each is for himself in the world you will ask less from your fellows. They will not disappoint you, and you will look upon them more charitably.
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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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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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It was such a beautiful day I decided to stay in bed.
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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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What does democracy come down to? The persuasive power of slogans invented by wily self-seeking politicians.
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I am told that today rather more than 60 per cent of the men who go to university go on a Government grant. This is a new class that has entered upon the scene. It is the white-collar proletariat. They do not go to university to acquire culture but to get a job, and when they have got one, scamp it.
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Failure make people bitter and cruel. Success improves the character of the man.
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If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.
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You’re intoxicated by the boundless space.
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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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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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