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Love is what happens to men and women who don’t know each other.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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Acquire Class Culture Enter Government Grant Men More Percent Portrait Rather Scene Sixty Today Told University
The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.
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Important Love Loved Rather Thing
I always find it more difficult to say the things I mean than the things I don’t.
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Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger.
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Beauty Ecstasy Simple Hunger
It is bad enough to know the past; it would be intolerable to know the future.
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Bad Enough Future Know Past
When I look back upon the girl I was I hate myself. But I never had a chance. I’m going to bring up my daughter so that she’s free and can stand on her own feet.
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Chance Daughter Feel Girl Hate Look Own Stand Upon
Life wouldn’t be worth living if I worried over the future as well as the present. When things are at their worst I find something always happens.
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Nothing in the world is permanent, and we’re foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we’re still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it.
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Anything Ask Delight Foolish Last More Nothing Permanent World
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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Ask Charitablity Disappoint Each Fellow Himself Less More Reconcile
You’re intoxicated by the boundless space.
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Boundless Intoxicate Space
But it may be that the way of life that he has chosen for himself and the peculiar strength and sweetness of his character may have an ever-growing influence over his fellow men so that, long after his death perhaps, it may be realized that there lived in this age a very remarkable creature.
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Age Character Chosen Creature Death Fellow Grow Influence Live Men Pecualr Perhaps Realize Remarkable Strength Sweetness
There’s always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.
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Always Himself Let Love Loved One
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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Give Head Opinion Organ Place Right Thoroughly
The crown of literature is poetry. It is its end and aim. It is the sublimest activity of the human mind. It is the achievement of beauty and delicacy. The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes.
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Achievement Activity Aim Beauty Crown Delicacy End Human Literature Mind Poetry Sublimest
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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Allow Any Illusion Ask Keep Other Them
She loved three things – a joke, a glass of wine, and a handsome man.
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Glass Handsome Love Men She Thing Three Wine

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