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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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If you don’t change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?
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There is nothing so terrible as the pursuit of art by those who have no talent.
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The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.
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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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Often the best way to overcome desire is to satisfy it.
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They have no manners and are woefully unable to deal with any social predicament. Their idea of a celebration is to go to a public house and drink six beers. They are mean, malicious and envious . They are scum.
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I made up my mind long ago that life was too short to do anything for myself that I could pay others to do for me.
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In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.
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Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.
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Of all the hokum with which this country [America] is riddled, the most odd is the common notion that it is free of class distinctions.
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Impropriety is the soul of wit.
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But it may be that the way of life that he has chosen for himself and the peculiar strength and sweetness of his character may have an ever-growing influence over his fellow men so that, long after his death perhaps, it may be realized that there lived in this age a very remarkable creature.
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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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The future will one day be the present and will seem as unimportant as the present does now.
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The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you.
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