When a woman loves you she’s not satisfied until she possesses your soul. Because she’s weak, she has a rage for domination, and nothing less will satisfy her.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMIt was such a beautiful day I decided to stay in bed.
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Oh, it is dreadfully bitter to look at a woman whom you have loved with all your heart and soul, so that you felt you could not bear to let her out of your sight, and realize that you would not mind if you never saw her again. The tragedy of love is indifference.
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There is nothing so terrible as the pursuit of art by those who have no talent.
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The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.
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The most valuable thing I have learned from life is to regret nothing.
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All the words I use in my stories can be found in the dictionary-it’s just a matter of arranging them into the right sentences.
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I wish I could make you see how exciting the life of the spirit is and how rich in experience. It’s illimitable. It’s such a happy life. There’s only one thing like it, when you’re up in a plane by yourself, high, high, and only infinity surrounds you.
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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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The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity.
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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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When you are reconciled to the fact that each is for himself in the world you will ask less from your fellows. They will not disappoint you, and you will look upon them more charitably.
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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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You know, there are two good things in life, freedom of thought and freedom of action.
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It is bad enough to know the past; it would be intolerable to know the future.
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The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.
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You’re intoxicated by the boundless space.
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