We seek pitifully to convey to others the treasures of our heart, but they have not the power to accept them, and so we go lonely, side by side but not together, unable to know our fellows and unknown by them.
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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It is bad enough to know the past; it would be intolerable to know the future.
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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 complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity.
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If you don’t change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?
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In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.
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The well dressed man is he whose clothes you never notice
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Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.
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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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The secret to life is meaningless unless you discover it yourself.
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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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She loved three things – a joke, a glass of wine, and a handsome man.
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Any society that values wealth above freedom will lose its freedom, and will ultimately lose its wealth as well
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Each one of us is alone in the world. He is shut in a tower of brass, and can communicate with his fellows only by signs, and the signs have no common value, so that their sense is vague and uncertain.
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There are times when I look over the various parts of my character with perplexity.
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It is a nuisance that knowledge can only be acquired by hard work.
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