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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 learn more quickly under the guidance of experienced teachers.
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There are two good things in life – freedom of thought and freedom of action.
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People talk of beauty lightly, and having no feeling for words, they use that one carelessly, so that it loses its force; and the thing it stands for, sharing its name with a hundred trivial objects, is deprived of dignity.
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The essential element of love is a belief in its own eternity.
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The mystic sees the ineffable, and the psychopathologist the unspeakable.
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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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Often the best way to overcome desire is to satisfy it.
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The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.
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An unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.
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Of all these the richest in beauty is the beautiful life. That is the perfect work of art.
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When I was young I was amazed at Plutarch’s statement that the elder Cato began at the age of eighty to learn Greek. I am amazed no longer. Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.
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The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.
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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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You can do anything in this world if you are prepared to take the consequences.
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When a woman loves you she’s not satisfied until she possesses your soul. Because she’s weak, she has a rage for domination, and nothing less will satisfy her.
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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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