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The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity.

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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The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.
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You know, of course, that the Tasmanians, who never committed adultery, are now extinct.
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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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It is bad enough to know the past; it would be intolerable to know the future.
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Most people are such fools that it is really no great compliment to say that someone is above the average.
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There is nothing so degrading as the constant anxiety about one’s means of livelihood.
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The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity.
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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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When you’re eighteen your emotions are violent, but they’re not durable.
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The essential element of love is a belief in its own eternity.
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I´m not going to bring a child into the world, and love her, and bring her up, just so that some man may want to sleep with her so much that he’s willing to provide her with board and lodging for the rest of her life.
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We must be very humble. We must see the beauty of quietness. We must go through life so inconspicuously that Fate does not notice us. And let us seek the love of simple, ignorant people. Their ignorance is better than all our knowledge.
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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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You will find as you grow older that the first thing needful to make the world a tolerable place to live in is to recognize the inevitable selfishness of humanity.
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