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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.

W. Somerset Maugham

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In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.
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Only a mediocre person is always at his best.
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You know, of course, that the Tasmanians, who never committed adultery, are now extinct.
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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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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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I personally prefer freedom of thought. But in England you get neither: you’re ground down by convention. You can’t think as you like and you can’t act as you like. That’s because it’s a democratic nation. I expect America’s worse.
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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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Artist Beauty Chaos Fashion Given Know Made Something Soul Strange Torment World
My own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror.
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Men seek but one thing in life — their pleasure.
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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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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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People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.
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Ask Criticism Only People Praise Want
Life is so largely controlled by chance that its conduct can be but a perpetual improvisation.
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A dictator must fool all the people all the time and there’s only one way to do that, he must also fool himself.
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Simplicity and naturalness are the truest marks of distinction.
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