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I recognize that I am made up of several persons and that the person that at the moment has the upper hand will inevitably give place to another. But which is the real one? All of them or none?

W. Somerset Maugham

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You demand unselfishness from others, which is a preposterous claim that they should sacrifice their desires to yours. Why should they?
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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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Nothing in the world is permanent, and we’re foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we’re still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it.
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The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
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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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The essential element of love is a belief in its own eternity.
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I don’t think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.
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The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.
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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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As lovers, the difference between men and women is that women can love all day long, but men only at times.
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Beauty is something wonderful and strange that the artist fashions out of the chaos of the world in the torment of his soul. And when he has made it, it is not given to all to know it.
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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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