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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.

W. Somerset Maugham

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When I was young I was amazed at Plutarch’s statement that the elder Cato began at the age of eighty to learn Greek. I am amazed no longer. Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.
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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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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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I wish I could make you see how much fuller the life I offer you is than anything you have a conception of.
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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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It is bad enough to know the past; it would be intolerable to know the future.
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What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one’s faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one’s memories.
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The world is hard and cruel. We are here none knows why, and we go none knows whither.
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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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You can do anything in this world if you are prepared to take the consequences.
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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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The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
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We do not write because we want to; we write because we have to.
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Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.
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