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Sometimes a man hits upon a place to which he mysteriously feels that he belongs.

W. Somerset Maugham

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I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.
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I always find it more difficult to say the things I mean than the things I don’t.
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I want a girl because I want to bring her up so that she shan’t make the mistakes I’ve made.
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The essential element of love is a belief in its own eternity.
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I made up my mind long ago that life was too short to do anything for myself that I could pay others to do for me.
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We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.
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Often the best way to overcome desire is to satisfy it.
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The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.
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It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one’s dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.
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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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You demand unselfishness from others, which is a preposterous claim that they should sacrifice their desires to yours. Why should they?
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If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too.
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The Almighty can hardly be such a fool as the churches make out.
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Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.
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You learn more quickly under the guidance of experienced teachers.
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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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