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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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I want a girl because I want to bring her up so that she shan’t make the mistakes I’ve made.
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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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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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People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.
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There’s always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.
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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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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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The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.
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Last Longest Love never Return
Impropriety is the soul of wit.
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If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.
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One can be very much in love with a woman without wishing to spend the rest of one’s life with her.
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Often the best way to overcome desire is to satisfy it.
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I always find it more difficult to say the things I mean than the things I don’t.
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The essential element of love is a belief in its own eternity.
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As the cosmos are in place, so be it with your life.
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The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.
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Important Love Loved Rather Thing
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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Answer Face Life Meaning Men Most Plain Reason Unpalatable
When a woman loves you she’s not satisfied until she possesses your soul. Because she’s weak, she has a rage for domination, and nothing less will satisfy her.
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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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Bird Bush Destitute Hand Last Mentality Proverb Refuge Restore Retorted Worth
Tolerance is only another name for indifference.
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Another Indifference Name Only Tolerance
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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Anything Ask Delight Foolish Last More Nothing Permanent World
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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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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It is bad enough to know the past; it would be intolerable to know the future.
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Bad Enough Future Know Past
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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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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Life wouldn’t be worth living if I worried over the future as well as the present. When things are at their worst I find something always happens.
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