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Life wouldn’t be worth living if I worried over the future as well as the present. When things are at their worst I find something always happens.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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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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In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.
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I’d sooner be smashed into a mangled pulp by a bus when we cross the street than look forward to a life like yours.
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The essential element of love is a belief in its own eternity.
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A bird in the hand was worth two in the bush, he told her, to which she retorted that a proverb was the last refuge of the mentally destitute.
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The world is hard and cruel. We are here none knows why, and we go none knows whither.
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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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Unfortunately sometimes one can’t do what one thinks is right without making someone else unhappy.
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I don’t think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.
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It is dangerous to let the public behind the scenes. They are easily disillusioned and then they are angry with you, for it was the illusion they loved.
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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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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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The Almighty can hardly be such a fool as the churches make out.
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He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it.
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The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.
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The trouble is that thinking looks like loafing. Who wants to pay people for daydreaming?
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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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There’s always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.
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When I look back upon the girl I was I hate myself. But I never had a chance. I’m going to bring up my daughter so that she’s free and can stand on her own feet.
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The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity.
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You know, of course, that the Tasmanians, who never committed adultery, are now extinct.
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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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There is nothing so terrible as the pursuit of art by those who have no talent.
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I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.
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The secret to life is meaningless unless you discover it yourself.
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Of all these the richest in beauty is the beautiful life. That is the perfect work of art.
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