Beauty is something wonderful and strange that the artist fashions out of the chaos of the world in the torment of his soul. And when he has made it, it is not given to all to know it.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMIf 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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The world is hard and cruel. We are here none knows why, and we go none knows whither.
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To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give.
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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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The most valuable thing I have learned from life is to regret nothing.
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To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.
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The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
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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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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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Unfortunately sometimes one can’t do what one thinks is right without making someone else unhappy.
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Throw yourself into the hurly-burly of life. It doesn’t matter how many mistakes you make, what unhappiness you have to undergo. It is all your material …
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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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The future will one day be the present and will seem as unimportant as the present does now.
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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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Men seek but one thing in life — their pleasure.
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An unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.
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