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As the cosmos are in place, so be it with your life.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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It was such a beautiful day I decided to stay in bed.
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Simplicity and naturalness are the truest marks of distinction.
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It is bad enough to know the past; it would be intolerable to know the future.
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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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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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The mystic sees the ineffable, and the psychopathologist the unspeakable.
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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 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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What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one’s faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one’s memories.
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Unfortunately sometimes one can’t do what one thinks is right without making someone else unhappy.
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All the words I use in my stories can be found in the dictionary-it’s just a matter of arranging them into the right sentences.
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The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity.
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Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.
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Failure make people bitter and cruel. Success improves the character of the man.
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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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