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It is dangerous to let the public behind the scenes. They are easily disillusioned and then they are angry with you, for it was the illusion they loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

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The Almighty can hardly be such a fool as the churches make out.
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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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The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you.
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One can be very much in love with a woman without wishing to spend the rest of one’s life with her.
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Simplicity and naturalness are the truest marks of distinction.
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It was such a beautiful day I decided to stay in bed.
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The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.
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The secret to life is meaningless unless you discover it yourself.
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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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You know, of course, that the Tasmanians, who never committed adultery, are now extinct.
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As lovers, the difference between men and women is that women can love all day long, but men only at times.
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It is a nuisance that knowledge can only be acquired by hard work.
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The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.
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He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it.
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There are two good things in life – freedom of thought and freedom of action.
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If you can tell stories, create characters, devise incidents, and have sincerity and passion, it doesn’t matter a damn how you write.
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There is nothing so terrible as the pursuit of art by those who have no talent.
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The mystic sees the ineffable, and the psychopathologist the unspeakable.
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If a man hasn’t what’s necessary to make a woman love him, it’s his fault, not hers.
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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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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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Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger.
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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 Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.
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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?
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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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