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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.

W. Somerset Maugham

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People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.
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When I was young I was amazed at Plutarch’s statement that the elder Cato began at the age of eighty to learn Greek. I am amazed no longer. Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.
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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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Oh, it is dreadfully bitter to look at a woman whom you have loved with all your heart and soul, so that you felt you could not bear to let her out of your sight, and realize that you would not mind if you never saw her again. The tragedy of love is indifference.
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If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.
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The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity.
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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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The secret to life is meaningless unless you discover it yourself.
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Discover Meaningless Secret Unless Yourself
The beauty of the morning and the radiance of noon are good, but it would be a very silly person who drew the curtains and turned on the light in order to shut out the tranquillity of the evening. Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.
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We do not write because we want to; we write because we have to.
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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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Art is a manifestation of emotion, and emotion speaks a language that all may understand.
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Death doesn’t affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn’t concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.
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Often the best way to overcome desire is to satisfy it.
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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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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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Impropriety is the soul of wit.
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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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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.
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Life is so largely controlled by chance that its conduct can be but a perpetual improvisation.
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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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Of all these the richest in beauty is the beautiful life. That is the perfect work of art.
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One cannot find peace in work or in pleasure, in the world or in a convent, but only in one’s soul.
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When you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right.
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What do we any of us have but our illusions? And what do we ask of others but that we be allowed to keep them?
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I have an idea that the only thing which makes it possible to regard this world we live in without disgust is the beauty which now and then men create out of the chaos. The pictures they paint, the music they compose, the books they write, and the lives they lead.
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