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You demand unselfishness from others, which is a preposterous claim that they should sacrifice their desires to yours. Why should they?

W. Somerset Maugham

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When you’re eighteen your emotions are violent, but they’re not durable.
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There is nothing so degrading as the constant anxiety about one’s means of livelihood.
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The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.
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The prestige you acquire by being able to tell your friends that you know famous men proves only that you are yourself of small account.
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Oh, it’s always the same,’ she sighed, ‘if you want men to behave well to you, you must be beastly to them; if you treat them decently they make you suffer for it.
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If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too.
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The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.
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Important Love Loved Rather Thing
The mystic sees the ineffable, and the psychopathologist the unspeakable.
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Ineftable Mystic Psychopathology See Unspeakable
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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The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.
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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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She loved three things – a joke, a glass of wine, and a handsome man.
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Failure make people bitter and cruel. Success improves the character of the man.
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There is nothing so terrible as the pursuit of art by those who have no talent.
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No Nothing Pursuit Talent Terrible Those
The beauty of the morning and the radiance of noon are good, but it would be a very silly person who drew the curtains and turned on the light in order to shut out the tranquillity of the evening. Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.
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Action Age Country Different Evening Freedom Good Old Pleasant Thing Tranquility Two Youth
Beauty is something wonderful and strange that the artist fashions out of the chaos of the world in the torment of his soul. And when he has made it, it is not given to all to know it.
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Artist Beauty Chaos Fashion Given Know Made Something Soul Strange Torment World

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