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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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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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We who are of mature age seldom suspect how unmercifully and yet with what insight the very young judge us.
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The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.
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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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I´m not going to bring a child into the world, and love her, and bring her up, just so that some man may want to sleep with her so much that he’s willing to provide her with board and lodging for the rest of her life.
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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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What do we any of us have but our illusions? And what do we ask of others but that we be allowed to keep them?
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If it is necessary sometimes to lie to others, it is always despicable to lie to oneself.
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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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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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As lovers, the difference between men and women is that women can love all day long, but men only at times.
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When I look back upon the girl I was I hate myself. But I never had a chance. I’m going to bring up my daughter so that she’s free and can stand on her own feet.
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You know, of course, that the Tasmanians, who never committed adultery, are now extinct.
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When you’re eighteen your emotions are violent, but they’re not durable.
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The world is hard and cruel. We are here none knows why, and we go none knows whither.
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