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The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.

W. Somerset Maugham

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The trouble is that thinking looks like loafing. Who wants to pay people for daydreaming?
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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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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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Don’t wait for experience to come to you; go out after experience. Experience is your material.
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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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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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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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Most people are such fools that it is really no great compliment to say that someone is above the average.
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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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It wasn’t until late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say, ‘I don’t know.’
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The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.
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To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give.
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All the words I use in my stories can be found in the dictionary-it’s just a matter of arranging them into the right sentences.
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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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Life wouldn’t be worth living if I worried over the future as well as the present. When things are at their worst I find something always happens.
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In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.
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