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The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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It’s no use crying over spilt milk, because all of the forces of the universe were bent on spilling it.
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Love is what happens to men and women who don’t know each other.
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The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.
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In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.
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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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if you’d ever had a grown-up daughter you’d know that by comparison a bucking steer is easy to manage. And as to knowing what goes on inside her – well, it’s much better to pretend you’re the simple, innocent old fool she almost certainly takes you for.
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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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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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There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
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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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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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There are two good things in life – freedom of thought and freedom of action.
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A dictator must fool all the people all the time and there’s only one way to do that, he must also fool himself.
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The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you.
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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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The essential element of love is a belief in its own eternity.
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We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits.
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I’d sooner be smashed into a mangled pulp by a bus when we cross the street than look forward to a life like yours.
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Only a mediocre person is always at his best.
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Sometimes a man hits upon a place to which he mysteriously feels that he belongs.
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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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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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How can I be reasonable? To me our love was everything and you were my whole life. It is not very pleasant to realize that to you it was only an episode.
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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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I don’t think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.
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Life is so largely controlled by chance that its conduct can be but a perpetual improvisation.
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