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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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We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.
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Love is what happens to men and women who don’t know each other.
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All the words I use in my stories can be found in the dictionary-it’s just a matter of arranging them into the right sentences.
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Impropriety is the soul of wit.
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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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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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I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.
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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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Death doesn’t affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn’t concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.
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We seek pitifully to convey to others the treasures of our heart, but they have not the power to accept them, and so we go lonely, side by side but not together, unable to know our fellows and unknown by them.
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Any society that values wealth above freedom will lose its freedom, and will ultimately lose its wealth as well
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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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Failure make people bitter and cruel. Success improves the character of the man.
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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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