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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.

W. Somerset Maugham

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What do we any of us have but our illusions? And what do we ask of others but that we be allowed to keep them?
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We do not write because we want to; we write because we have to.
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The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.
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To recognize it you must repeat the adventure of the artist. It is a melody that he sings to you, and to hear it again in your own heart you want knowledge and sensitiveness and imagination.
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You demand unselfishness from others, which is a preposterous claim that they should sacrifice their desires to yours. Why should they?
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Now the answer … is plain, but it is so unpalatable that most men will not face it. There is no reason for life and life has no meaning.
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How can I be reasonable? To me our love was everything and you were my whole life. It is not very pleasant to realize that to you it was only an episode.
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Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.
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You know, there are two good things in life, freedom of thought and freedom of action.
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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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You’re intoxicated by the boundless space.
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The well dressed man is he whose clothes you never notice
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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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It was such a beautiful day I decided to stay in bed.
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For my part I cannot believe in a God who is angry with me because I do not believe in him. I cannot believe in a God who is less tolerant than I. I cannot believe in a God who has neither humour nor common sense.
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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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There’s always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.
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The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.
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You will find as you grow older that the first thing needful to make the world a tolerable place to live in is to recognize the inevitable selfishness of humanity.
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