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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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Why should you think that beauty, which is the most precious thing in the world, lies like a stone on the beach for the careless passer-by to pick up idly?
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

Beauty Careless Ebach Lie Like Mood Precious Should Stone Thing Think World
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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Beauty Humble Ignorance Inconspicuously Knowledge Love Notice Outness People Simple
We seek pitifully to convey to others the treasures of our heart, but they have not the power to accept them, and so we go lonely, side by side but not together, unable to know our fellows and unknown by them.
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Accept Convey Fellow Heart Know Other Power Seek Together Treasure Unable
The mystic sees the ineffable, and the psychopathologist the unspeakable.
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Ineftable Mystic Psychopathology See Unspeakable
If a man hasn’t what’s necessary to make a woman love him, it’s his fault, not hers.
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Fault Her Man Necessary Woman
It wasn’t until late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say, ‘I don’t know.’
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Discover Easy Know Late Say Until
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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Action Both Bother Choose Country Else Everybody Freedom Good May Nobody Thing
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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Accept Best Funny Get Life Often Refuse Thing
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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Beauty Compose Disgust Idea Live Make Men Only Picture Possible Regard Thing World
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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Appearance Consider Good Listen Look Only Sentence Sound Weight Word
Don’t wait for experience to come to you; go out after experience. Experience is your material.
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After Come Experience Material Wait You
I always find it more difficult to say the things I mean than the things I don’t.
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Always Difficult Mean More Say Thing
The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.
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Cease Great Love Men Perish Tragedy
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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Act Convention Country Democratic Ground Like Nation Personality Prefer Worst
The secret to life is meaningless unless you discover it yourself.
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Discover Meaningless Secret Unless Yourself
There are two good things in life – freedom of thought and freedom of action.
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Action Freedom Good Thing Thought Two

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