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I always find it more difficult to say the things I mean than the things I don’t.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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 always find it more difficult to say the things I mean than the things I don’t.
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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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Oh, it is dreadfully bitter to look at a woman whom you have loved with all your heart and soul, so that you felt you could not bear to let her out of your sight, and realize that you would not mind if you never saw her again. The tragedy of love is indifference.
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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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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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From the earliest time the old have rubbed it into the young that they are wiser, and before the young had discovered what nonsense this was they were old too, and it profited them to carry on the imposture.
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Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
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The trouble is that thinking looks like loafing. Who wants to pay people for daydreaming?
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Of all the hokum with which this country [America] is riddled, the most odd is the common notion that it is free of class distinctions.
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Now it is a funny thing about life. If you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it. If you utterly decline to make do with what you can get, then somehow or other, you are very likely to get what you want.
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If nobody spoke unless he had something to say, the human race would very soon lose the use of speech.
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When you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right.
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You know, of course, that the Tasmanians, who never committed adultery, are now extinct.
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