The essential element of love is a belief in its own eternity.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMIt is bad enough to know the past; it would be intolerable to know the future.
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I´m not going to bring a child into the world, and love her, and bring her up, just so that some man may want to sleep with her so much that he’s willing to provide her with board and lodging for the rest of her life.
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As the cosmos are in place, so be it with your life.
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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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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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The most valuable thing I have learned from life is to regret nothing.
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They call beautiful a dress, a dog, a sermon; and when they are face to face with Beauty cannot recognise it.
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Impropriety is the soul of wit.
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We do not write because we want to; we write because we have to.
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There are times when I look over the various parts of my character with perplexity.
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To recognize it you must repeat the adventure of the artist. It is a melody that he sings to you, and to hear it again in your own heart you want knowledge and sensitiveness and imagination.
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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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What does democracy come down to? The persuasive power of slogans invented by wily self-seeking politicians.
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The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.
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The world is hard and cruel. We are here none knows why, and we go none knows whither.
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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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It is bad enough to know the past; it would be intolerable to know the future.
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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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Death doesn’t affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn’t concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.
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Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.
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Life is so largely controlled by chance that its conduct can be but a perpetual improvisation.
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Only a mediocre person is always at his best.
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But it may be that the way of life that he has chosen for himself and the peculiar strength and sweetness of his character may have an ever-growing influence over his fellow men so that, long after his death perhaps, it may be realized that there lived in this age a very remarkable creature.
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For my part I cannot believe in a God who is angry with me because I do not believe in him. I cannot believe in a God who is less tolerant than I. I cannot believe in a God who has neither humour nor common sense.
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Often the best way to overcome desire is to satisfy it.
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Tolerance is only another name for indifference.
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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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