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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.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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Each one of us is alone in the world. He is shut in a tower of brass, and can communicate with his fellows only by signs, and the signs have no common value, so that their sense is vague and uncertain.
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If a man hasn’t what’s necessary to make a woman love him, it’s his fault, not hers.
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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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What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one’s faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one’s memories.
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In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.
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Tolerance is only another name for indifference.
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Only a mediocre person is always at his best.
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A dictator must fool all the people all the time and there’s only one way to do that, he must also fool himself.
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Why should you think that beauty, which is the most precious thing in the world, lies like a stone on the beach for the careless passer-by to pick up idly?
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In France you get freedom of action: you can do what you like and nobody bothers, but you must think like everybody else. In Germany you must do what everybody else does, but you may think as you choose. They’re both very good things.
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If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.
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The future will one day be the present and will seem as unimportant as the present does now.
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