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I’ll give you my opinion of the human race in a nutshell… their heart’s in the right place, but their head is a thoroughly inefficient organ.

W. Somerset Maugham

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There’s always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.
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To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give.
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It’s no good trying to keep up old friendships. It’s painful for both sides. The fact is, one grows out of people, and the only thing is to face it.
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The most valuable thing I have learned from life is to regret nothing.
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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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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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The beauty of the morning and the radiance of noon are good, but it would be a very silly person who drew the curtains and turned on the light in order to shut out the tranquillity of the evening. Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.
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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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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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It was such a beautiful day I decided to stay in bed.
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The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
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Any society that values wealth above freedom will lose its freedom, and will ultimately lose its wealth as well
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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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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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One cannot find peace in work or in pleasure, in the world or in a convent, but only in one’s soul.
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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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We do not write because we want to; we write because we have to.
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Why should you think that beauty, which is the most precious thing in the world, lies like a stone on the beach for the careless passer-by to pick up idly?
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There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
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Life isn’t long enough for love and art.
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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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The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.
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Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
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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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I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.
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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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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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