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It’s no good trying to keep up old friendships. It’s painful for both sides. The fact is, one grows out of people, and the only thing is to face it.

W. Somerset Maugham

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You can do anything in this world if you are prepared to take the consequences.
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I recognize that I am made up of several persons and that the person that at the moment has the upper hand will inevitably give place to another. But which is the real one? All of them or none?
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If nobody spoke unless he had something to say, the human race would very soon lose the use of speech.
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You know, of course, that the Tasmanians, who never committed adultery, are now extinct.
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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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To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.
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You know, there are two good things in life, freedom of thought and freedom of action.
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When you’re eighteen your emotions are violent, but they’re not durable.
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I have an idea that the only thing which makes it possible to regard this world we live in without disgust is the beauty which now and then men create out of the chaos. The pictures they paint, the music they compose, the books they write, and the lives they lead.
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There are two good things in life – freedom of thought and freedom of action.
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It wasn’t until late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say, ‘I don’t know.’
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I don’t think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.
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When you are reconciled to the fact that each is for himself in the world you will ask less from your fellows. They will not disappoint you, and you will look upon them more charitably.
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Oh, it is dreadfully bitter to look at a woman whom you have loved with all your heart and soul, so that you felt you could not bear to let her out of your sight, and realize that you would not mind if you never saw her again. The tragedy of love is indifference.
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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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As the cosmos are in place, so be it with your life.
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