W. Somerset Maugham

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Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

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What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.

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Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.

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The world in general doesn't know what to make of originality it is startled out of its comfortable habits of thought, and its first reaction is one of anger.

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We are not the same persons this year as last nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.

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Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul.

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Beauty is an ecstasy it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it. It is like the perfume of a rose: you can smell it and that is all.

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It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humour.

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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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Only a mediocre person is always at his best.

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