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When you’re eighteen your emotions are violent, but they’re not durable.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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Love is what happens to men and women who don’t know each other.
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Often the best way to overcome desire is to satisfy it.
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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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The mystic sees the ineffable, and the psychopathologist the unspeakable.
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Life is so largely controlled by chance that its conduct can be but a perpetual improvisation.
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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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Come Democracy Down Invent Persuasive Politician Power Seek Self Slogan
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.
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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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An unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.
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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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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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Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.
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The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
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I’ll give you my opinion of the human race in a nutshell… their heart’s in the right place, but their head is a thoroughly inefficient organ.
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Give Head Opinion Organ Place Right Thoroughly
Beauty is something wonderful and strange that the artist fashions out of the chaos of the world in the torment of his soul. And when he has made it, it is not given to all to know it.
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