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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.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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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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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’s no use crying over spilt milk, because all of the forces of the universe were bent on spilling it.
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Throw yourself into the hurly-burly of life. It doesn’t matter how many mistakes you make, what unhappiness you have to undergo. It is all your material …
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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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I made up my mind long ago that life was too short to do anything for myself that I could pay others to do for me.
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Failure make people bitter and cruel. Success improves the character of the man.
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Of all these the richest in beauty is the beautiful life. That is the perfect work of art.
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The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
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It is bad enough to know the past; it would be intolerable to know the future.
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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 mystic sees the ineffable, and the psychopathologist the unspeakable.
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There are two good things in life – freedom of thought and freedom of action.
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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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A mother only does her children harm if she makes them the only concern of her life.
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The secret to life is meaningless unless you discover it yourself.
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You know, of course, that the Tasmanians, who never committed adultery, are now extinct.
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I am told that today rather more than 60 per cent of the men who go to university go on a Government grant. This is a new class that has entered upon the scene. It is the white-collar proletariat. They do not go to university to acquire culture but to get a job, and when they have got one, scamp it.
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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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