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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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Nothing in the world is permanent, and we’re foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we’re still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it.
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You waste a lot of time going down blind alleys if you have no one to lead you.
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I personally prefer freedom of thought. But in England you get neither: you’re ground down by convention. You can’t think as you like and you can’t act as you like. That’s because it’s a democratic nation. I expect America’s worse.
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The essential element of love is a belief in its own eternity.
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The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.
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The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
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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 learn more quickly under the guidance of experienced teachers.
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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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The world is hard and cruel. We are here none knows why, and we go none knows whither.
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The Almighty can hardly be such a fool as the churches make out.
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The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you.
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Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.
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It’s no good trying to keep up old friendships. It’s painful for both sides. The fact is, one grows out of people, and the only thing is to face it.
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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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There is a sort of man who pays no attention to his good actions, but is tormented by his bad ones. This is the type that most often writes about himself.
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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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If a man hasn’t what’s necessary to make a woman love him, it’s his fault, not hers.
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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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People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.
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Impropriety is the soul of wit.
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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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When you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right.
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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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Of all these the richest in beauty is the beautiful life. That is the perfect work of art.
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Men seek but one thing in life — their pleasure.
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When a woman loves you she’s not satisfied until she possesses your soul. Because she’s weak, she has a rage for domination, and nothing less will satisfy her.
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