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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.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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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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If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.
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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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It’s no use crying over spilt milk, because all of the forces of the universe were bent on spilling it.
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When you’re eighteen your emotions are violent, but they’re not durable.
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I made up my mind long ago that life was too short to do anything for myself that I could pay others to do for me.
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You know, of course, that the Tasmanians, who never committed adultery, are now extinct.
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You learn more quickly under the guidance of experienced teachers.
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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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What does democracy come down to? The persuasive power of slogans invented by wily self-seeking politicians.
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People talk of beauty lightly, and having no feeling for words, they use that one carelessly, so that it loses its force; and the thing it stands for, sharing its name with a hundred trivial objects, is deprived of dignity.
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It is a nuisance that knowledge can only be acquired by hard work.
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When you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right.
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