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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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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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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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At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.

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An unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.

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

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Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.

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

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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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It's very hard to be a gentleman and a writer.

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Playwright

Born: January 25th, 1874

Died: December 16th, 1965

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