There are times when I look over the various parts of my character with perplexity.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMTolerance is only another name for indifference.
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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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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 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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What does democracy come down to? The persuasive power of slogans invented by wily self-seeking politicians.
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They call beautiful a dress, a dog, a sermon; and when they are face to face with Beauty cannot recognise it.
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The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.
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If you don’t change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?
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There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
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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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You waste a lot of time going down blind alleys if you have no one to lead you.
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There’s always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.
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Tolerance is only another name for indifference.
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Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.
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Life wouldn’t be worth living if I worried over the future as well as the present. When things are at their worst I find something always happens.
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I´m not going to bring a child into the world, and love her, and bring her up, just so that some man may want to sleep with her so much that he’s willing to provide her with board and lodging for the rest of her life.
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