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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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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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A bird in the hand was worth two in the bush, he told her, to which she retorted that a proverb was the last refuge of the mentally destitute.
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To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give.
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I made up my mind long ago that life was too short to do anything for myself that I could pay others to do for me.
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The trouble is that thinking looks like loafing. Who wants to pay people for daydreaming?
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People talk of beauty lightly, and having no feeling for words, they use that one carelessly, so that it loses its force; and the thing it stands for, sharing its name with a hundred trivial objects, is deprived of dignity.
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Tolerance is only another name for indifference.
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Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.
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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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But it may be that the way of life that he has chosen for himself and the peculiar strength and sweetness of his character may have an ever-growing influence over his fellow men so that, long after his death perhaps, it may be realized that there lived in this age a very remarkable creature.
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The prestige you acquire by being able to tell your friends that you know famous men proves only that you are yourself of small account.
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The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.
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The world is hard and cruel. We are here none knows why, and we go none knows whither.
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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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Now it is a funny thing about life. If you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it. If you utterly decline to make do with what you can get, then somehow or other, you are very likely to get what you want.
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