There’s always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.
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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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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Life is so largely controlled by chance that its conduct can be but a perpetual improvisation.
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He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it.
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She loved three things – a joke, a glass of wine, and a handsome man.
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A mother only does her children harm if she makes them the only concern of her life.
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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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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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The well dressed man is he whose clothes you never notice
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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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It is a nuisance that knowledge can only be acquired by hard work.
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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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It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one’s dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.
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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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Why should you think that beauty, which is the most precious thing in the world, lies like a stone on the beach for the careless passer-by to pick up idly?
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You learn more quickly under the guidance of experienced teachers.
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