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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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The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.
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You waste a lot of time going down blind alleys if you have no one to lead you.
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The essential element of love is a belief in its own eternity.
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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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It’s a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.
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Now it is a funny thing about life. If you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it. If you utterly decline to make do with what you can get, then somehow or other, you are very likely to get what you want.
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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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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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We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits.
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Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.
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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 complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity.
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One cannot find peace in work or in pleasure, in the world or in a convent, but only in one’s soul.
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To recognize it you must repeat the adventure of the artist. It is a melody that he sings to you, and to hear it again in your own heart you want knowledge and sensitiveness and imagination.
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It was such a beautiful day I decided to stay in bed.
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Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.
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