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.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMIn 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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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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The tragedy of love is not death or separation. How long do you think it would have been before one or other of them ceased to care?
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The essential element of love is a belief in its own eternity.
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Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.
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When you’re eighteen your emotions are violent, but they’re not durable.
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Often the best way to overcome desire is to satisfy it.
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The well dressed man is he whose clothes you never notice
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There are times when I look over the various parts of my character with perplexity.
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An unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.
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Life wouldn’t be worth living if I worried over the future as well as the present. When things are at their worst I find something always happens.
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The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.
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Love is what happens to men and women who don’t know each other.
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You know, of course, that the Tasmanians, who never committed adultery, are now extinct.
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I’d sooner be smashed into a mangled pulp by a bus when we cross the street than look forward to a life like yours.
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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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