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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.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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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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I don’t think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.
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He is not famous. It may be that he never will be. It may be that when his life at last comes to an end he will leave no more trace of his sojourn on earth than a stone thrown into a river leaves on the surface of the water.
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Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.
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Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
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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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The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.
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It was such a beautiful day I decided to stay in bed.
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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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People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.
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The most valuable thing I have learned from life is to regret nothing.
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Life isn’t long enough for love and art.
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Now it is a funny thing about life. If you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it. If you utterly decline to make do with what you can get, then somehow or other, you are very likely to get what you want.
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The well dressed man is he whose clothes you never notice
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Death doesn’t affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn’t concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.
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To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give.
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They call beautiful a dress, a dog, a sermon; and when they are face to face with Beauty cannot recognise it.
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The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you.
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A mother only does her children harm if she makes them the only concern of her life.
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There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
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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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Impropriety is the soul of wit.
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Love is what happens to men and women who don’t know each other.
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When you are reconciled to the fact that each is for himself in the world you will ask less from your fellows. They will not disappoint you, and you will look upon them more charitably.
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What do we any of us have but our illusions? And what do we ask of others but that we be allowed to keep them?
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Allow Any Illusion Ask Keep Other Them
When I look back upon the girl I was I hate myself. But I never had a chance. I’m going to bring up my daughter so that she’s free and can stand on her own feet.
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