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It wasn’t until late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say, ‘I don’t know.’

W. Somerset Maugham

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We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits.
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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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I wish I could make you see how exciting the life of the spirit is and how rich in experience. It’s illimitable. It’s such a happy life. There’s only one thing like it, when you’re up in a plane by yourself, high, high, and only infinity surrounds you.
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The Almighty can hardly be such a fool as the churches make out.
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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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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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It wasn’t until late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say, ‘I don’t know.’
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People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.
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The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.
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The secret to life is meaningless unless you discover it yourself.
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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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Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.
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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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if you’d ever had a grown-up daughter you’d know that by comparison a bucking steer is easy to manage. And as to knowing what goes on inside her – well, it’s much better to pretend you’re the simple, innocent old fool she almost certainly takes you for.
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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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Simplicity and naturalness are the truest marks of distinction.
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