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I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.

W. Somerset Maugham

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The most valuable thing I have learned from life is to regret nothing.
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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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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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Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger.
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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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He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it.
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There’s always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.
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When a woman loves you she’s not satisfied until she possesses your soul. Because she’s weak, she has a rage for domination, and nothing less will satisfy her.
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But it may be that the way of life that he has chosen for himself and the peculiar strength and sweetness of his character may have an ever-growing influence over his fellow men so that, long after his death perhaps, it may be realized that there lived in this age a very remarkable creature.
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People talk of beauty lightly, and having no feeling for words, they use that one carelessly, so that it loses its force; and the thing it stands for, sharing its name with a hundred trivial objects, is deprived of dignity.
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The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.
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There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
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It is dangerous to let the public behind the scenes. They are easily disillusioned and then they are angry with you, for it was the illusion they loved.
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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 always find it more difficult to say the things I mean than the things I don’t.
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