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We seek pitifully to convey to others the treasures of our heart, but they have not the power to accept them, and so we go lonely, side by side but not together, unable to know our fellows and unknown by them.

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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In France you get freedom of action: you can do what you like and nobody bothers, but you must think like everybody else. In Germany you must do what everybody else does, but you may think as you choose. They’re both very good things.
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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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How can I be reasonable? To me our love was everything and you were my whole life. It is not very pleasant to realize that to you it was only an episode.
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There are two good things in life – freedom of thought and freedom of action.
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As lovers, the difference between men and women is that women can love all day long, but men only at times.
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You know, of course, that the Tasmanians, who never committed adultery, are now extinct.
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The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.
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Dullness is the first requisite of a good husband.
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We do not write because we want to; we write because we have to.
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I don’t think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.
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There’s always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.
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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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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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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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It is a nuisance that knowledge can only be acquired by hard work.
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