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The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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We must be very humble. We must see the beauty of quietness. We must go through life so inconspicuously that Fate does not notice us. And let us seek the love of simple, ignorant people. Their ignorance is better than all our knowledge.
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When you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right.
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You can do anything in this world if you are prepared to take the consequences.
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The essential element of love is a belief in its own eternity.
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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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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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He is not famous. It may be that he never will be. It may be that when his life at last comes to an end he will leave no more trace of his sojourn on earth than a stone thrown into a river leaves on the surface of the water.
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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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Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.
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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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Beauty is something wonderful and strange that the artist fashions out of the chaos of the world in the torment of his soul. And when he has made it, it is not given to all to know it.
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Life wouldn’t be worth living if I worried over the future as well as the present. When things are at their worst I find something always happens.
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I am told that today rather more than 60 per cent of the men who go to university go on a Government grant. This is a new class that has entered upon the scene. It is the white-collar proletariat. They do not go to university to acquire culture but to get a job, and when they have got one, scamp it.
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The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.
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One cannot find peace in work or in pleasure, in the world or in a convent, but only in one’s soul.
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The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
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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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To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.
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The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you.
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If you don’t change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?
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Now the answer … is plain, but it is so unpalatable that most men will not face it. There is no reason for life and life has no meaning.
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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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It is bad enough to know the past; it would be intolerable to know the future.
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We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits.
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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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As lovers, the difference between men and women is that women can love all day long, but men only at times.
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