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I always find it more difficult to say the things I mean than the things I don’t.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.
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People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.
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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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Always Beastly Behave Mine Must Same Sighted Want Well
You demand unselfishness from others, which is a preposterous claim that they should sacrifice their desires to yours. Why should they?
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Demand Desire Other Preposterous Sacrifice Should Unselfishness
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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Convent Find One Only Peace Pleasure Soul World
How can I be reasonable? To me our love was everything and you were my whole life. It is not very pleasant to realize that to you it was only an episode.
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Everything Life Love Plesant Realize Reasonable Whole You
As lovers, the difference between men and women is that women can love all day long, but men only at times.
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There’s always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.
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The most valuable thing I have learned from life is to regret nothing.
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Life is so largely controlled by chance that its conduct can be but a perpetual improvisation.
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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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We do not write because we want to; we write because we have to.
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Because Have Want Write
I wish I could make you see how much fuller the life I offer you is than anything you have a conception of.
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Anything Conception Could Fuller How Life Make Much Offer See
I wish I could make you see how exciting the life of the spirit is and how rich in experience. It’s illimitable. It’s such a happy life. There’s only one thing like it, when you’re up in a plane by yourself, high, high, and only infinity surrounds you.
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Excite Experience Happy High Illuminate Infinity One Plane Rich Spirit Surround
If forty million people say a foolish thing it does not become a wise one.
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Become First Foolish Million One People Thing Wise

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