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If it is necessary sometimes to lie to others, it is always despicable to lie to oneself.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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 only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you.
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Simplicity and naturalness are the truest marks of distinction.
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It’s no good trying to keep up old friendships. It’s painful for both sides. The fact is, one grows out of people, and the only thing is to face it.
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The well dressed man is he whose clothes you never notice
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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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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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You know, of course, that the Tasmanians, who never committed adultery, are now extinct.
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It was such a beautiful day I decided to stay in bed.
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If it is necessary sometimes to lie to others, it is always despicable to lie to oneself.
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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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Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger.
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If you don’t change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?
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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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The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.
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The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.
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