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Men seek but one thing in life — their pleasure.

W. Somerset Maugham

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The trouble is that thinking looks like loafing. Who wants to pay people for daydreaming?
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The most valuable thing I have learned from life is to regret nothing.
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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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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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They call beautiful a dress, a dog, a sermon; and when they are face to face with Beauty cannot recognise it.
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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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The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.
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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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Each one of us is alone in the world. He is shut in a tower of brass, and can communicate with his fellows only by signs, and the signs have no common value, so that their sense is vague and uncertain.
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Tolerance is only another name for indifference.
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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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The prestige you acquire by being able to tell your friends that you know famous men proves only that you are yourself of small account.
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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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I recognize that I am made up of several persons and that the person that at the moment has the upper hand will inevitably give place to another. But which is the real one? All of them or none?
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To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give.
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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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