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As the cosmos are in place, so be it with your life.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.
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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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What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one’s faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one’s memories.
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There’s always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.
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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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The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.
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Dullness is the first requisite of a good husband.
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Most people are such fools that it is really no great compliment to say that someone is above the average.
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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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The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.
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The Almighty can hardly be such a fool as the churches make out.
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We do not write because we want to; we write because we have to.
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Often the best way to overcome desire is to satisfy it.
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Now it is a funny thing about life. If you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it. If you utterly decline to make do with what you can get, then somehow or other, you are very likely to get what you want.
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As the cosmos are in place, so be it with your life.
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We must be very humble. We must see the beauty of quietness. We must go through life so inconspicuously that Fate does not notice us. And let us seek the love of simple, ignorant people. Their ignorance is better than all our knowledge.
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Oh, it is dreadfully bitter to look at a woman whom you have loved with all your heart and soul, so that you felt you could not bear to let her out of your sight, and realize that you would not mind if you never saw her again. The tragedy of love is indifference.
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The crown of literature is poetry. It is its end and aim. It is the sublimest activity of the human mind. It is the achievement of beauty and delicacy. The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes.
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One can be very much in love with a woman without wishing to spend the rest of one’s life with her.
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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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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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Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.
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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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When you’re eighteen your emotions are violent, but they’re not durable.
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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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