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He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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You demand unselfishness from others, which is a preposterous claim that they should sacrifice their desires to yours. Why should they?
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There is a sort of man who pays no attention to his good actions, but is tormented by his bad ones. This is the type that most often writes about himself.
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Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
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The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity.
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You waste a lot of time going down blind alleys if you have no one to lead you.
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The mystic sees the ineffable, and the psychopathologist the unspeakable.
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Nothing in the world is permanent, and we’re foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we’re still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it.
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Words have weight, sound and appearance; it is only by considering these that you can write a sentence that is good to look at and good to listen to.
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The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.
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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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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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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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I always find it more difficult to say the things I mean than the things I don’t.
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To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.
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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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