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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.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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If forty million people say a foolish thing it does not become a wise one.
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As the cosmos are in place, so be it with your life.
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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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Failure make people bitter and cruel. Success improves the character of the man.
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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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It wasn’t until late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say, ‘I don’t know.’
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When you’re eighteen your emotions are violent, but they’re not durable.
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The mystic sees the ineffable, and the psychopathologist the unspeakable.
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If nobody spoke unless he had something to say, the human race would very soon lose the use of speech.
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If it is necessary sometimes to lie to others, it is always despicable to lie to oneself.
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If a man hasn’t what’s necessary to make a woman love him, it’s his fault, not hers.
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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?
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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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You waste a lot of time going down blind alleys if you have no one to lead you.
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If you can tell stories, create characters, devise incidents, and have sincerity and passion, it doesn’t matter a damn how you write.
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