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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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Now it is a funny thing about life. If you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it. If you utterly decline to make do with what you can get, then somehow or other, you are very likely to get what you want.
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If nobody spoke unless he had something to say, the human race would very soon lose the use of speech.
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People talk of beauty lightly, and having no feeling for words, they use that one carelessly, so that it loses its force; and the thing it stands for, sharing its name with a hundred trivial objects, is deprived of dignity.
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Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
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If you can tell stories, create characters, devise incidents, and have sincerity and passion, it doesn’t matter a damn how you write.
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The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.
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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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