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When you are reconciled to the fact that each is for himself in the world you will ask less from your fellows. They will not disappoint you, and you will look upon them more charitably.

W. Somerset Maugham

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He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it.
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Love is what happens to men and women who don’t know each other.
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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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I personally prefer freedom of thought. But in England you get neither: you’re ground down by convention. You can’t think as you like and you can’t act as you like. That’s because it’s a democratic nation. I expect America’s worse.
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Men seek but one thing in life — their pleasure.
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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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A mother only does her children harm if she makes them the only concern of her life.
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The well dressed man is he whose clothes you never notice
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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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You know, of course, that the Tasmanians, who never committed adultery, are now extinct.
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It was such a beautiful day I decided to stay in bed.
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Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger.
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It wasn’t until late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say, ‘I don’t know.’
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The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.
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The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.
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I have an idea that the only thing which makes it possible to regard this world we live in without disgust is the beauty which now and then men create out of the chaos. The pictures they paint, the music they compose, the books they write, and the lives they lead.
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