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W. Somerset Maugham

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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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The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you.
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I recognize that I am made up of several persons and that the person that at the moment has the upper hand will inevitably give place to another. But which is the real one? All of them or none?
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My own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror.
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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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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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In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.
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What do we any of us have but our illusions? And what do we ask of others but that we be allowed to keep them?
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Allow Any Illusion Ask Keep Other Them
Simplicity and naturalness are the truest marks of distinction.
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The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.
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You’re intoxicated by the boundless space.
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She loved three things – a joke, a glass of wine, and a handsome man.
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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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If a man hasn’t what’s necessary to make a woman love him, it’s his fault, not hers.
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Fault Her Man Necessary Woman
Art is a manifestation of emotion, and emotion speaks a language that all may understand.
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I have an idea that the only thing which makes it possible to regard this world we live in without disgust is the beauty which now and then men create out of the chaos. The pictures they paint, the music they compose, the books they write, and the lives they lead.
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