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.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMFailure make people bitter and cruel. Success improves the character of the man.
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Now the answer … is plain, but it is so unpalatable that most men will not face it. There is no reason for life and life has no meaning.
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There’s always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.
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Failure make people bitter and cruel. Success improves the character of the man.
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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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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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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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As lovers, the difference between men and women is that women can love all day long, but men only at times.
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Don’t wait for experience to come to you; go out after experience. Experience is your material.
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The mystic sees the ineffable, and the psychopathologist the unspeakable.
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I am told that today rather more than 60 per cent of the men who go to university go on a Government grant. This is a new class that has entered upon the scene. It is the white-collar proletariat. They do not go to university to acquire culture but to get a job, and when they have got one, scamp it.
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It’s a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.
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When I look back upon the girl I was I hate myself. But I never had a chance. I’m going to bring up my daughter so that she’s free and can stand on her own feet.
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They have no manners and are woefully unable to deal with any social predicament. Their idea of a celebration is to go to a public house and drink six beers. They are mean, malicious and envious . They are scum.
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I wish I could make you see how much fuller the life I offer you is than anything you have a conception of.
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The prestige you acquire by being able to tell your friends that you know famous men proves only that you are yourself of small account.
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