The essential element of love is a belief in its own eternity.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMI don’t think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.
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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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One cannot find peace in work or in pleasure, in the world or in a convent, but only in one’s soul.
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The tragedy of love is not death or separation. How long do you think it would have been before one or other of them ceased to care?
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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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Any society that values wealth above freedom will lose its freedom, and will ultimately lose its wealth as well
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Of all these the richest in beauty is the beautiful life. That is the perfect work of art.
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The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.
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Art is a manifestation of emotion, and emotion speaks a language that all may understand.
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If nobody spoke unless he had something to say, the human race would very soon lose the use of speech.
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What do we any of us have but our illusions? And what do we ask of others but that we be allowed to keep them?
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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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To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give.
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The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity.
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if you’d ever had a grown-up daughter you’d know that by comparison a bucking steer is easy to manage. And as to knowing what goes on inside her – well, it’s much better to pretend you’re the simple, innocent old fool she almost certainly takes you for.
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