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The world is hard and cruel. We are here none knows why, and we go none knows whither.

W. Somerset Maugham

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There’s always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.
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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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Oh, it is dreadfully bitter to look at a woman whom you have loved with all your heart and soul, so that you felt you could not bear to let her out of your sight, and realize that you would not mind if you never saw her again. The tragedy of love is indifference.
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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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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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Most people are such fools that it is really no great compliment to say that someone is above the average.
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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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There is nothing so degrading as the constant anxiety about one’s means of livelihood.
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I wish I could make you see how exciting the life of the spirit is and how rich in experience. It’s illimitable. It’s such a happy life. There’s only one thing like it, when you’re up in a plane by yourself, high, high, and only infinity surrounds you.
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Oh, it’s always the same,’ she sighed, ‘if you want men to behave well to you, you must be beastly to them; if you treat them decently they make you suffer for it.
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Dullness is the first requisite of a good husband.
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The Almighty can hardly be such a fool as the churches make out.
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If you can tell stories, create characters, devise incidents, and have sincerity and passion, it doesn’t matter a damn how you write.
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It wasn’t until late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say, ‘I don’t know.’
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If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too.
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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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