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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.

W. Somerset Maugham

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One can be very much in love with a woman without wishing to spend the rest of one’s life with her.
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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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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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Dullness is the first requisite of a good husband.
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The crown of literature is poetry. It is its end and aim. It is the sublimest activity of the human mind. It is the achievement of beauty and delicacy. The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes.
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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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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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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.
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You know, there are two good things in life, freedom of thought and freedom of action.
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They have no manners and are woefully unable to deal with any social predicament. Their idea of a celebration is to go to a public house and drink six beers. They are mean, malicious and envious . They are scum.
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I am told that today rather more than 60 per cent of the men who go to university go on a Government grant. This is a new class that has entered upon the scene. It is the white-collar proletariat. They do not go to university to acquire culture but to get a job, and when they have got one, scamp it.
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The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.
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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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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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An unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.
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There are two good things in life – freedom of thought and freedom of action.
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