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The mystic sees the ineffable, and the psychopathologist the unspeakable.

W. Somerset Maugham

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If you don’t change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?
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We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits.
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If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.
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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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The prestige you acquire by being able to tell your friends that you know famous men proves only that you are yourself of small account.
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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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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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My own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror.
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You know, of course, that the Tasmanians, who never committed adultery, are now extinct.
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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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The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.
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Often the best way to overcome desire is to satisfy it.
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If it is necessary sometimes to lie to others, it is always despicable to lie to oneself.
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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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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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The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.
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