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We must be very humble. We must see the beauty of quietness. We must go through life so inconspicuously that Fate does not notice us. And let us seek the love of simple, ignorant people. Their ignorance is better than all our knowledge.

W. Somerset Maugham

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You can do anything in this world if you are prepared to take the consequences.
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There’s always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.
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We seek pitifully to convey to others the treasures of our heart, but they have not the power to accept them, and so we go lonely, side by side but not together, unable to know our fellows and unknown by them.
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The essential element of love is a belief in its own eternity.
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I wish I could make you see how exciting the life of the spirit is and how rich in experience. It’s illimitable. It’s such a happy life. There’s only one thing like it, when you’re up in a plane by yourself, high, high, and only infinity surrounds you.
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We who are of mature age seldom suspect how unmercifully and yet with what insight the very young judge us.
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Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
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Love is what happens to men and women who don’t know each other.
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One cannot find peace in work or in pleasure, in the world or in a convent, but only in one’s soul.
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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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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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Sometimes a man hits upon a place to which he mysteriously feels that he belongs.
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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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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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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 most valuable thing I have learned from life is to regret nothing.
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