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Unfortunately sometimes one can’t do what one thinks is right without making someone else unhappy.

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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You will find as you grow older that the first thing needful to make the world a tolerable place to live in is to recognize the inevitable selfishness of humanity.
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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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The Almighty can hardly be such a fool as the churches make out.
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When you’re eighteen your emotions are violent, but they’re not durable.
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I’ll give you my opinion of the human race in a nutshell… their heart’s in the right place, but their head is a thoroughly inefficient organ.
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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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Each one of us is alone in the world. He is shut in a tower of brass, and can communicate with his fellows only by signs, and the signs have no common value, so that their sense is vague and uncertain.
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The most valuable thing I have learned from life is to regret nothing.
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Men seek but one thing in life — their pleasure.
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It’s no use crying over spilt milk, because all of the forces of the universe were bent on spilling it.
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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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To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.
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You know, of course, that the Tasmanians, who never committed adultery, are now extinct.
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As the cosmos are in place, so be it with your life.
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