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There is a sort of man who pays no attention to his good actions, but is tormented by his bad ones. This is the type that most often writes about himself.

W. Somerset Maugham

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There’s always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.
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Dullness is the first requisite of a good husband.
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The essential element of love is a belief in its own eternity.
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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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Art is a manifestation of emotion, and emotion speaks a language that all may understand.
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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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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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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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I made up my mind long ago that life was too short to do anything for myself that I could pay others to do for me.
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What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one’s faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one’s memories.
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I want a girl because I want to bring her up so that she shan’t make the mistakes I’ve made.
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Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.
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There are times when I look over the various parts of my character with perplexity.
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Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger.
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I am told that today rather more than 60 per cent of the men who go to university go on a Government grant. This is a new class that has entered upon the scene. It is the white-collar proletariat. They do not go to university to acquire culture but to get a job, and when they have got one, scamp it.
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To recognize it you must repeat the adventure of the artist. It is a melody that he sings to you, and to hear it again in your own heart you want knowledge and sensitiveness and imagination.
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Adventure Again Artist Hear Heart Imagination Melody Recognize Repeat Sensitiveness

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