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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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We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.
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The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.
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The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
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The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.
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In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.
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Men seek but one thing in life — their pleasure.
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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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Now the answer … is plain, but it is so unpalatable that most men will not face it. There is no reason for life and life has no meaning.
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You’re intoxicated by the boundless space.
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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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I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.
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The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.
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One cannot find peace in work or in pleasure, in the world or in a convent, but only in one’s soul.
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We must be very humble. We must see the beauty of quietness. We must go through life so inconspicuously that Fate does not notice us. And let us seek the love of simple, ignorant people. Their ignorance is better than all our knowledge.
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If nobody spoke unless he had something to say, the human race would very soon lose the use of speech.
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From the earliest time the old have rubbed it into the young that they are wiser, and before the young had discovered what nonsense this was they were old too, and it profited them to carry on the imposture.
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Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger.
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There’s always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.
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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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Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.
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A dictator must fool all the people all the time and there’s only one way to do that, he must also fool himself.
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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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But it may be that the way of life that he has chosen for himself and the peculiar strength and sweetness of his character may have an ever-growing influence over his fellow men so that, long after his death perhaps, it may be realized that there lived in this age a very remarkable creature.
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Simplicity and naturalness are the truest marks of distinction.
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I am told that today rather more than 60 per cent of the men who go to university go on a Government grant. This is a new class that has entered upon the scene. It is the white-collar proletariat. They do not go to university to acquire culture but to get a job, and when they have got one, scamp it.
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The tragedy of love is not death or separation. How long do you think it would have been before one or other of them ceased to care?
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I´m not going to bring a child into the world, and love her, and bring her up, just so that some man may want to sleep with her so much that he’s willing to provide her with board and lodging for the rest of her life.
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