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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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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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Life is so largely controlled by chance that its conduct can be but a perpetual improvisation.
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We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits.
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You can do anything in this world if you are prepared to take the consequences.
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My own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror.
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The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
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The essential element of love is a belief in its own eternity.
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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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There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
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The Almighty can hardly be such a fool as the churches make out.
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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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I don’t think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.
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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.
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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 was such a beautiful day I decided to stay in bed.
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Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.
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Art is a manifestation of emotion, and emotion speaks a language that all may understand.
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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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The well dressed man is he whose clothes you never notice
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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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The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity.
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Impropriety is the soul of wit.
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As lovers, the difference between men and women is that women can love all day long, but men only at times.
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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 future will one day be the present and will seem as unimportant as the present does now.
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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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What do we any of us have but our illusions? And what do we ask of others but that we be allowed to keep them?
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