Life isn’t long enough for love and art.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMThe future will one day be the present and will seem as unimportant as the present does now.
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Failure make people bitter and cruel. Success improves the character of the man.
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The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.
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Now the answer … is plain, but it is so unpalatable that most men will not face it. There is no reason for life and life has no meaning.
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You know, of course, that the Tasmanians, who never committed adultery, are now extinct.
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The most valuable thing I have learned from life is to regret nothing.
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There are two good things in life – freedom of thought and freedom of action.
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The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity.
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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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When you’re eighteen your emotions are violent, but they’re not durable.
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The secret to life is meaningless unless you discover it yourself.
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Men seek but one thing in life — their pleasure.
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The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.
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A mother only does her children harm if she makes them the only concern of her life.
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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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Unfortunately sometimes one can’t do what one thinks is right without making someone else unhappy.
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