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The world is hard and cruel. We are here none knows why, and we go none knows whither.

W. Somerset Maugham

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The beauty of the morning and the radiance of noon are good, but it would be a very silly person who drew the curtains and turned on the light in order to shut out the tranquillity of the evening. Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.
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I made up my mind long ago that life was too short to do anything for myself that I could pay others to do for me.
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You know, there are two good things in life, freedom of thought and freedom of action.
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The mystic sees the ineffable, and the psychopathologist the unspeakable.
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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 a nuisance that knowledge can only be acquired by hard work.
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When you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right.
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The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you.
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To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give.
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We who are of mature age seldom suspect how unmercifully and yet with what insight the very young judge us.
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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.
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I’d sooner be smashed into a mangled pulp by a bus when we cross the street than look forward to a life like yours.
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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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When I was young I was amazed at Plutarch’s statement that the elder Cato began at the age of eighty to learn Greek. I am amazed no longer. Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.
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I personally prefer freedom of thought. But in England you get neither: you’re ground down by convention. You can’t think as you like and you can’t act as you like. That’s because it’s a democratic nation. I expect America’s worse.
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Oh, it’s always the same,’ she sighed, ‘if you want men to behave well to you, you must be beastly to them; if you treat them decently they make you suffer for it.
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