We who are of mature age seldom suspect how unmercifully and yet with what insight the very young judge us.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMIf you don’t change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?
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Any society that values wealth above freedom will lose its freedom, and will ultimately lose its wealth as well
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As the cosmos are in place, so be it with your life.
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Words have weight, sound and appearance; it is only by considering these that you can write a sentence that is good to look at and good to listen to.
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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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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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The tragedy of love is not death or separation. How long do you think it would have been before one or other of them ceased to care?
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We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits.
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One cannot find peace in work or in pleasure, in the world or in a convent, but only in one’s soul.
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You learn more quickly under the guidance of experienced teachers.
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If nobody spoke unless he had something to say, the human race would very soon lose the use of speech.
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There is nothing so terrible as the pursuit of art by those who have no talent.
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Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger.
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There’s always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.
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How can I be reasonable? To me our love was everything and you were my whole life. It is not very pleasant to realize that to you it was only an episode.
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I wish I could make you see how much fuller the life I offer you is than anything you have a conception of.
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