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The most valuable thing I have learned from life is to regret nothing.

W. Somerset Maugham

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The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.
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Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.
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Simplicity and naturalness are the truest marks of distinction.
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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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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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There are two good things in life – freedom of thought and freedom of action.
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There is a sort of man who pays no attention to his good actions, but is tormented by his bad ones. This is the type that most often writes about himself.
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When I look back upon the girl I was I hate myself. But I never had a chance. I’m going to bring up my daughter so that she’s free and can stand on her own feet.
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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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Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
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I personally prefer freedom of thought. But in England you get neither: you’re ground down by convention. You can’t think as you like and you can’t act as you like. That’s because it’s a democratic nation. I expect America’s worse.
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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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There are times when I look over the various parts of my character with perplexity.
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If you can tell stories, create characters, devise incidents, and have sincerity and passion, it doesn’t matter a damn how you write.
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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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When you are reconciled to the fact that each is for himself in the world you will ask less from your fellows. They will not disappoint you, and you will look upon them more charitably.
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Throw yourself into the hurly-burly of life. It doesn’t matter how many mistakes you make, what unhappiness you have to undergo. It is all your material …
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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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In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.
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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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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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If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.
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I want a girl because I want to bring her up so that she shan’t make the mistakes I’ve made.
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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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Failure make people bitter and cruel. Success improves the character of the man.
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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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You know, of course, that the Tasmanians, who never committed adultery, are now extinct.
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