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It is bad enough to know the past; it would be intolerable to know the future.

W. Somerset Maugham

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You know, of course, that the Tasmanians, who never committed adultery, are now extinct.
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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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Nothing in the world is permanent, and we’re foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we’re still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it.
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Failure make people bitter and cruel. Success improves the character of the man.
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Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
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The secret to life is meaningless unless you discover it yourself.
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Most people are such fools that it is really no great compliment to say that someone is above the average.
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Above Average Compliment Fool Great Most People Really Someone
You will find as you grow older that the first thing needful to make the world a tolerable place to live in is to recognize the inevitable selfishness of humanity.
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First Grow Inevitable Make Needful Older Place Recognize Selfishness Thing Tolerable World
Oh, it’s always the same,’ she sighed, ‘if you want men to behave well to you, you must be beastly to them; if you treat them decently they make you suffer for it.
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Always Beastly Behave Mine Must Same Sighted Want Well
If it is necessary sometimes to lie to others, it is always despicable to lie to oneself.
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There is nothing so degrading as the constant anxiety about one’s means of livelihood.
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Often the best way to overcome desire is to satisfy it.
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Best Desire Often Overcome Satisfy Way
There are times when I look over the various parts of my character with perplexity.
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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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Answer Face Life Meaning Men Most Plain Reason Unpalatable
How can I be reasonable? To me our love was everything and you were my whole life. It is not very pleasant to realize that to you it was only an episode.
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Everything Life Love Plesant Realize Reasonable Whole You
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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Ask Charitablity Disappoint Each Fellow Himself Less More Reconcile

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