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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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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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We who are of mature age seldom suspect how unmercifully and yet with what insight the very young judge us.
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Beauty is something wonderful and strange that the artist fashions out of the chaos of the world in the torment of his soul. And when he has made it, it is not given to all to know it.
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The prestige you acquire by being able to tell your friends that you know famous men proves only that you are yourself of small account.
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To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give.
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You demand unselfishness from others, which is a preposterous claim that they should sacrifice their desires to yours. Why should they?
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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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The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.
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Love is what happens to men and women who don’t know each other.
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