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Oh, it is dreadfully bitter to look at a woman whom you have loved with all your heart and soul, so that you felt you could not bear to let her out of your sight, and realize that you would not mind if you never saw her again. The tragedy of love is indifference.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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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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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
When I was young I was amazed at Plutarch’s statement that the elder Cato began at the age of eighty to learn Greek. I am amazed no longer. Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.
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You know, there are two good things in life, freedom of thought and freedom of action.
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Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.
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You learn more quickly under the guidance of experienced teachers.
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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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Any society that values wealth above freedom will lose its freedom, and will ultimately lose its wealth as well
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There is nothing so terrible as the pursuit of art by those who have no talent.
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I wish I could make you see how exciting the life of the spirit is and how rich in experience. It’s illimitable. It’s such a happy life. There’s only one thing like it, when you’re up in a plane by yourself, high, high, and only infinity surrounds you.
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Of all these the richest in beauty is the beautiful life. That is the perfect work of art.
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There are times when I look over the various parts of my character with perplexity.
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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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Oh, it’s always the same,’ she sighed, ‘if you want men to behave well to you, you must be beastly to them; if you treat them decently they make you suffer for it.
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Of all the hokum with which this country [America] is riddled, the most odd is the common notion that it is free of class distinctions.
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