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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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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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The mystic sees the ineffable, and the psychopathologist the unspeakable.
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Simplicity and naturalness are the truest marks of distinction.
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When you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right.
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But it may be that the way of life that he has chosen for himself and the peculiar strength and sweetness of his character may have an ever-growing influence over his fellow men so that, long after his death perhaps, it may be realized that there lived in this age a very remarkable creature.
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The trouble is that thinking looks like loafing. Who wants to pay people for daydreaming?
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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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If a man hasn’t what’s necessary to make a woman love him, it’s his fault, not hers.
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If you don’t change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?
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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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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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In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.
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Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.
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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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