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I like manual labor. Whenever I've got waterlogged with study, I've taken a spell of it and found it spiritually invigorating.
W. Somerset Maugham
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W. Somerset Maugham
Age: 90 †
Born: 1874
Born: January 1
Died: 1965
Died: January 1
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There is no explanation for evil. It must be looked upon as a necessary part of the order of the universe. To ignore it is childish, to bewail it senseless.
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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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He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it.
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Men have an extraordinarily erroneous opinion of their position in nature and the error is ineradicable.
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I write only when inspiration strikes. Fortunately it strikes every morning at nine o'clock sharp.
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What mean and cruel things men can do for the love of God.
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Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.
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Do you absolutely despise me, Walter? No. He hesitated and his voice was strange. I despise myself.
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