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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.

W. Somerset Maugham

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You will find as you grow older that the first thing needful to make the world a tolerable place to live in is to recognize the inevitable selfishness of humanity.
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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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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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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.
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The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you.
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We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.
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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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We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits.
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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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You can do anything in this world if you are prepared to take the consequences.
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If it is necessary sometimes to lie to others, it is always despicable to lie to oneself.
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People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.
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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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Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
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The trouble is that thinking looks like loafing. Who wants to pay people for daydreaming?
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The beauty of the morning and the radiance of noon are good, but it would be a very silly person who drew the curtains and turned on the light in order to shut out the tranquillity of the evening. Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.
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