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If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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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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I want a girl because I want to bring her up so that she shan’t make the mistakes I’ve made.
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The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.
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In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.
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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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Each one of us is alone in the world. He is shut in a tower of brass, and can communicate with his fellows only by signs, and the signs have no common value, so that their sense is vague and uncertain.
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Sometimes a man hits upon a place to which he mysteriously feels that he belongs.
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You know, there are two good things in life, freedom of thought and freedom of action.
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We seek pitifully to convey to others the treasures of our heart, but they have not the power to accept them, and so we go lonely, side by side but not together, unable to know our fellows and unknown by them.
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I don’t think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.
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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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