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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.

W. Somerset Maugham

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The essential element of love is a belief in its own eternity.
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Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.
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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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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 complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity.
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It was such a beautiful day I decided to stay in bed.
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I personally prefer freedom of thought. But in England you get neither: you’re ground down by convention. You can’t think as you like and you can’t act as you like. That’s because it’s a democratic nation. I expect America’s worse.
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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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My own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror.
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If forty million people say a foolish thing it does not become a wise one.
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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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Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.
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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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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 love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.
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