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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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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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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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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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If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.
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Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.
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There is nothing so degrading as the constant anxiety about one’s means of livelihood.
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There’s always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.
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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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The trouble is that thinking looks like loafing. Who wants to pay people for daydreaming?
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To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.
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Life isn’t long enough for love and art.
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If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too.
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All the words I use in my stories can be found in the dictionary-it’s just a matter of arranging them into the right sentences.
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The well dressed man is he whose clothes you never notice
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Art is a manifestation of emotion, and emotion speaks a language that all may understand.
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Often the best way to overcome desire is to satisfy it.
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When you are reconciled to the fact that each is for himself in the world you will ask less from your fellows. They will not disappoint you, and you will look upon them more charitably.
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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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When you’re eighteen your emotions are violent, but they’re not durable.
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Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.
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Unfortunately sometimes one can’t do what one thinks is right without making someone else unhappy.
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It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one’s dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.
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When you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right.
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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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Anything Long Made Mind Myself Others Short
Failure make people bitter and cruel. Success improves the character of the man.
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