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We do not write because we want to; we write because we have to.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Death doesn’t affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn’t concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.
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The mystic sees the ineffable, and the psychopathologist the unspeakable.
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The most valuable thing I have learned from life is to regret nothing.
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One can be very much in love with a woman without wishing to spend the rest of one’s life with her.
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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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The beauty of the morning and the radiance of noon are good, but it would be a very silly person who drew the curtains and turned on the light in order to shut out the tranquillity of the evening. Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.
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If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too.
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The secret to life is meaningless unless you discover it yourself.
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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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I always find it more difficult to say the things I mean than the things I don’t.
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What does democracy come down to? The persuasive power of slogans invented by wily self-seeking politicians.
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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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If you can tell stories, create characters, devise incidents, and have sincerity and passion, it doesn’t matter a damn how you write.
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Most people are such fools that it is really no great compliment to say that someone is above the average.
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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 can do anything in this world if you are prepared to take the consequences.
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