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I recognize that I am made up of several persons and that the person that at the moment has the upper hand will inevitably give place to another. But which is the real one? All of them or none?

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.
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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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The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.
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To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give.
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Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
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You waste a lot of time going down blind alleys if you have no one to lead you.
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Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.
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Love is what happens to men and women who don’t know each other.
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There are two good things in life – freedom of thought and freedom of action.
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Beauty is something wonderful and strange that the artist fashions out of the chaos of the world in the torment of his soul. And when he has made it, it is not given to all to know it.
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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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I personally prefer freedom of thought. But in England you get neither: you’re ground down by convention. You can’t think as you like and you can’t act as you like. That’s because it’s a democratic nation. I expect America’s worse.
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If it is necessary sometimes to lie to others, it is always despicable to lie to oneself.
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You know, of course, that the Tasmanians, who never committed adultery, are now extinct.
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He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it.
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