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Unfortunately sometimes one can’t do what one thinks is right without making someone else unhappy.

W. Somerset Maugham

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If it is necessary sometimes to lie to others, it is always despicable to lie to oneself.
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The tragedy of love is not death or separation. How long do you think it would have been before one or other of them ceased to care?
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I’ll give you my opinion of the human race in a nutshell… their heart’s in the right place, but their head is a thoroughly inefficient organ.
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The mystic sees the ineffable, and the psychopathologist the unspeakable.
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I am told that today rather more than 60 per cent of the men who go to university go on a Government grant. This is a new class that has entered upon the scene. It is the white-collar proletariat. They do not go to university to acquire culture but to get a job, and when they have got one, scamp it.
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There is a sort of man who pays no attention to his good actions, but is tormented by his bad ones. This is the type that most often writes about himself.
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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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The prestige you acquire by being able to tell your friends that you know famous men proves only that you are yourself of small account.
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It’s no use crying over spilt milk, because all of the forces of the universe were bent on spilling it.
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Each one of us is alone in the world. He is shut in a tower of brass, and can communicate with his fellows only by signs, and the signs have no common value, so that their sense is vague and uncertain.
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I wish I could make you see how exciting the life of the spirit is and how rich in experience. It’s illimitable. It’s such a happy life. There’s only one thing like it, when you’re up in a plane by yourself, high, high, and only infinity surrounds you.
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Life is so largely controlled by chance that its conduct can be but a perpetual improvisation.
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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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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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The world is hard and cruel. We are here none knows why, and we go none knows whither.
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It was such a beautiful day I decided to stay in bed.
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