The future will one day be the present and will seem as unimportant as the present does now.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMThrow 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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He is not famous. It may be that he never will be. It may be that when his life at last comes to an end he will leave no more trace of his sojourn on earth than a stone thrown into a river leaves on the surface of the water.
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The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
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The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.
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If it is necessary sometimes to lie to others, it is always despicable to lie to oneself.
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The most valuable thing I have learned from life is to regret nothing.
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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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You waste a lot of time going down blind alleys if you have no one to lead you.
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Tolerance is only another name for indifference.
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The world is hard and cruel. We are here none knows why, and we go none knows whither.
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In France you get freedom of action: you can do what you like and nobody bothers, but you must think like everybody else. In Germany you must do what everybody else does, but you may think as you choose. They’re both very good things.
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She loved three things – a joke, a glass of wine, and a handsome man.
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Often the best way to overcome desire is to satisfy it.
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Words have weight, sound and appearance; it is only by considering these that you can write a sentence that is good to look at and good to listen to.
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Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
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Only a mediocre person is always at his best.
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