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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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Life is so largely controlled by chance that its conduct can be but a perpetual improvisation.
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Any society that values wealth above freedom will lose its freedom, and will ultimately lose its wealth as well
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Life isn’t long enough for love and art.
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The secret to life is meaningless unless you discover it yourself.
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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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In France you get freedom of action: you can do what you like and nobody bothers, but you must think like everybody else. In Germany you must do what everybody else does, but you may think as you choose. They’re both very good things.
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Impropriety is the soul of wit.
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if you’d ever had a grown-up daughter you’d know that by comparison a bucking steer is easy to manage. And as to knowing what goes on inside her – well, it’s much better to pretend you’re the simple, innocent old fool she almost certainly takes you for.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.
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The Almighty can hardly be such a fool as the churches make out.
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