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The mystic sees the ineffable, and the psychopathologist the unspeakable.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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.
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Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
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Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger.
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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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When you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right.
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Kindness People Right Show Take Young
The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.
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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?
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As the cosmos are in place, so be it with your life.
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If a man hasn’t what’s necessary to make a woman love him, it’s his fault, not hers.
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Fault Her Man Necessary Woman
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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You waste a lot of time going down blind alleys if you have no one to lead you.
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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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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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Difference Long Love Men Time Women
People talk of beauty lightly, and having no feeling for words, they use that one carelessly, so that it loses its force; and the thing it stands for, sharing its name with a hundred trivial objects, is deprived of dignity.
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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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For my part I cannot believe in a God who is angry with me because I do not believe in him. I cannot believe in a God who is less tolerant than I. I cannot believe in a God who has neither humour nor common sense.
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Angry Believe God Les Part Than Tolerant

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