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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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A mother only does her children harm if she makes them the only concern of her life.
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When you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right.
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Life wouldn’t be worth living if I worried over the future as well as the present. When things are at their worst I find something always happens.
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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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There is nothing so degrading as the constant anxiety about one’s means of livelihood.
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I don’t think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.
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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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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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The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.
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Simplicity and naturalness are the truest marks of distinction.
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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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Life isn’t long enough for love and art.
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