The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMEach 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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When you are reconciled to the fact that each is for himself in the world you will ask less from your fellows. They will not disappoint you, and you will look upon them more charitably.
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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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The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you.
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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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He is not famous. It may be that he never will be. It may be that when his life at last comes to an end he will leave no more trace of his sojourn on earth than a stone thrown into a river leaves on the surface of the water.
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Most people are such fools that it is really no great compliment to say that someone is above the average.
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In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.
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We must be very humble. We must see the beauty of quietness. We must go through life so inconspicuously that Fate does not notice us. And let us seek the love of simple, ignorant people. Their ignorance is better than all our knowledge.
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Dullness is the first requisite of a good husband.
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Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.
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We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits.
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The well dressed man is he whose clothes you never notice
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Words have weight, sound and appearance; it is only by considering these that you can write a sentence that is good to look at and good to listen to.
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Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger.
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I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.
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