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It is bad enough to know the past; it would be intolerable to know the future.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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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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To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give.
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She loved three things – a joke, a glass of wine, and a handsome man.
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The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.
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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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The essential element of love is a belief in its own eternity.
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You demand unselfishness from others, which is a preposterous claim that they should sacrifice their desires to yours. Why should they?
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The crown of literature is poetry. It is its end and aim. It is the sublimest activity of the human mind. It is the achievement of beauty and delicacy. The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes.
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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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I always find it more difficult to say the things I mean than the things I don’t.
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The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you.
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The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.
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There are times when I look over the various parts of my character with perplexity.
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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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The well dressed man is he whose clothes you never notice
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