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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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We do not write because we want to; we write because we have to.
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I don’t think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.
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Life is so largely controlled by chance that its conduct can be but a perpetual improvisation.
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If forty million people say a foolish thing it does not become a wise one.
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There is nothing so degrading as the constant anxiety about one’s means of livelihood.
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Of all the hokum with which this country [America] is riddled, the most odd is the common notion that it is free of class distinctions.
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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.
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A bird in the hand was worth two in the bush, he told her, to which she retorted that a proverb was the last refuge of the mentally destitute.
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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 Almighty can hardly be such a fool as the churches make out.
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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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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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He is not famous. It may be that he never will be. It may be that when his life at last comes to an end he will leave no more trace of his sojourn on earth than a stone thrown into a river leaves on the surface of the water.
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We seek pitifully to convey to others the treasures of our heart, but they have not the power to accept them, and so we go lonely, side by side but not together, unable to know our fellows and unknown by them.
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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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