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To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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The future will one day be the present and will seem as unimportant as the present does now.
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It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one’s dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.
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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 crown of literature is poetry. It is its end and aim. It is the sublimest activity of the human mind. It is the achievement of beauty and delicacy. The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes.
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There’s always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.
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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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There is nothing so degrading as the constant anxiety about one’s means of livelihood.
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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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She loved three things – a joke, a glass of wine, and a handsome man.
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I always find it more difficult to say the things I mean than the things I don’t.
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People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.
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The essential element of love is a belief in its own eternity.
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When I look back upon the girl I was I hate myself. But I never had a chance. I’m going to bring up my daughter so that she’s free and can stand on her own feet.
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If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.
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It’s a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.
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