She loved three things – a joke, a glass of wine, and a handsome man.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMBeauty 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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Art is a manifestation of emotion, and emotion speaks a language that all may understand.
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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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If a man hasn’t what’s necessary to make a woman love him, it’s his fault, not hers.
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Throw yourself into the hurly-burly of life. It doesn’t matter how many mistakes you make, what unhappiness you have to undergo. It is all your material …
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There are two good things in life – freedom of thought and freedom of action.
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Men seek but one thing in life — their pleasure.
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The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you.
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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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The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
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The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.
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I wish I could make you see how much fuller the life I offer you is than anything you have a conception of.
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A bird in the hand was worth two in the bush, he told her, to which she retorted that a proverb was the last refuge of the mentally destitute.
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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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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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The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.
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