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For my part I cannot believe in a God who is angry with me because I do not believe in him. I cannot believe in a God who is less tolerant than I. I cannot believe in a God who has neither humour nor common sense.

W. Somerset Maugham

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An unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.
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What do we any of us have but our illusions? And what do we ask of others but that we be allowed to keep them?
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Unfortunately sometimes one can’t do what one thinks is right without making someone else unhappy.
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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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Men seek but one thing in life — their pleasure.
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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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It was such a beautiful day I decided to stay in bed.
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The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.
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The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
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She loved three things – a joke, a glass of wine, and a handsome man.
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My own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror.
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As the cosmos are in place, so be it with your life.
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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 is nothing so terrible as the pursuit of art by those who have no talent.
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There is nothing so degrading as the constant anxiety about one’s means of livelihood.
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The tragedy of love is not death or separation. How long do you think it would have been before one or other of them ceased to care?
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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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The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.
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When I was young I was amazed at Plutarch’s statement that the elder Cato began at the age of eighty to learn Greek. I am amazed no longer. Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.
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I don’t think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.
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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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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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It wasn’t until late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say, ‘I don’t know.’
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Tolerance is only another name for indifference.
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What does democracy come down to? The persuasive power of slogans invented by wily self-seeking politicians.
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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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When a woman loves you she’s not satisfied until she possesses your soul. Because she’s weak, she has a rage for domination, and nothing less will satisfy her.
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