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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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We do not write because we want to; we write because we have to.
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Art is a manifestation of emotion, and emotion speaks a language that all may understand.
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If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.
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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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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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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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Simplicity and naturalness are the truest marks of distinction.
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The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
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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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Now it is a funny thing about life. If you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it. If you utterly decline to make do with what you can get, then somehow or other, you are very likely to get what you want.
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Life is so largely controlled by chance that its conduct can be but a perpetual improvisation.
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The trouble is that thinking looks like loafing. Who wants to pay people for daydreaming?
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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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Sometimes a man hits upon a place to which he mysteriously feels that he belongs.
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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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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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