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You’re intoxicated by the boundless space.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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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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The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you.
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Life wouldn’t be worth living if I worried over the future as well as the present. When things are at their worst I find something always happens.
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When you’re eighteen your emotions are violent, but they’re not durable.
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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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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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Often the best way to overcome desire is to satisfy it.
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They call beautiful a dress, a dog, a sermon; and when they are face to face with Beauty cannot recognise it.
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I don’t think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.
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I recognize that I am made up of several persons and that the person that at the moment has the upper hand will inevitably give place to another. But which is the real one? All of them or none?
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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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People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.
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Dullness is the first requisite of a good husband.
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They have no manners and are woefully unable to deal with any social predicament. Their idea of a celebration is to go to a public house and drink six beers. They are mean, malicious and envious . They are scum.
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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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