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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.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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There’s always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.
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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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In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.
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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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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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Often the best way to overcome desire is to satisfy it.
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There is nothing so terrible as the pursuit of art by those who have no talent.
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Men seek but one thing in life — their pleasure.
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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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There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
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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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There are times when I look over the various parts of my character with perplexity.
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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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She loved three things – a joke, a glass of wine, and a handsome man.
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You will find as you grow older that the first thing needful to make the world a tolerable place to live in is to recognize the inevitable selfishness of humanity.
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