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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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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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Bring Life Lodging Make Man One Possible Rst Sleep Some Thing Willing
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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Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.
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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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When you’re eighteen your emotions are violent, but they’re not durable.
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An unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.
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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?
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All Another Hand Inevitably Made Moment None Person Place Recognize Several Upper
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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It’s a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.
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Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.
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The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.
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Of all these the richest in beauty is the beautiful life. That is the perfect work of art.
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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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Buck Comparision Daughter Easy Grown Inside Know Manage Pretend Simple Steer
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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Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
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The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.
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For my part I cannot believe in a God who is angry with me because I do not believe in him. I cannot believe in a God who is less tolerant than I. I cannot believe in a God who has neither humour nor common sense.
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Angry Believe God Les Part Than Tolerant
If nobody spoke unless he had something to say, the human race would very soon lose the use of speech.
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The well dressed man is he whose clothes you never notice
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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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The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.
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You know, of course, that the Tasmanians, who never committed adultery, are now extinct.
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If you can tell stories, create characters, devise incidents, and have sincerity and passion, it doesn’t matter a damn how you write.
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The future will one day be the present and will seem as unimportant as the present does now.
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Sometimes a man hits upon a place to which he mysteriously feels that he belongs.
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Oh, it is dreadfully bitter to look at a woman whom you have loved with all your heart and soul, so that you felt you could not bear to let her out of your sight, and realize that you would not mind if you never saw her again. The tragedy of love is indifference.
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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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