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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.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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There is nothing so degrading as the constant anxiety about one’s means of livelihood.
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Anxiety Constant Decade Livelihood Mena Nothing
The future will one day be the present and will seem as unimportant as the present does now.
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Does Future Present Seen Unimportant
Life is so largely controlled by chance that its conduct can be but a perpetual improvisation.
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Chance Conduct Control Improvisation Largely Life Perpetual
Failure make people bitter and cruel. Success improves the character of the man.
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Character Cruel Failure Improve Make Man People Sucess
I don’t think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.
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Everlasting Matter Past Present Think
We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits.
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Defect Friend Know Merit Rather
The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
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Ability Quote Serviceable Substitute Visit
If you can tell stories, create characters, devise incidents, and have sincerity and passion, it doesn’t matter a damn how you write.
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Character Crete Incident Matter Pasion Sincerity Story Tell Write
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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Bent Cry Force Milk Over Spill Spilt Universe Use
I wish I could make you see how much fuller the life I offer you is than anything you have a conception of.
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Anything Conception Could Fuller How Life Make Much Offer See
Art is a manifestation of emotion, and emotion speaks a language that all may understand.
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Art Emotion Mainfstation May Speak Understand
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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Bring Life Lodging Make Man One Possible Rst Sleep Some Thing Willing
Throw yourself into the hurly-burly of life. It doesn’t matter how many mistakes you make, what unhappiness you have to undergo. It is all your material …
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Burly Hurly Make Many Matter Mistake Undergo Unhappiness Yourself
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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Give Head Opinion Organ Place Right Thoroughly
The beauty of the morning and the radiance of noon are good, but it would be a very silly person who drew the curtains and turned on the light in order to shut out the tranquillity of the evening. Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.
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Action Age Country Different Evening Freedom Good Old Pleasant Thing Tranquility Two Youth

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