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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.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Death doesn’t affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn’t concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.
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I recognize that I am made up of several persons and that the person that at the moment has the upper hand will inevitably give place to another. But which is the real one? All of them or none?
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There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
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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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You’re intoxicated by the boundless space.
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It’s a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.
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Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
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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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The mystic sees the ineffable, and the psychopathologist the unspeakable.
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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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A mother only does her children harm if she makes them the only concern of her life.
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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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In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.
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Men seek but one thing in life — their pleasure.
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