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The essential element of love is a belief in its own eternity.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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.
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I don’t think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.
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Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger.
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We do not write because we want to; we write because we have to.
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There are two good things in life – freedom of thought and freedom of action.
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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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I recognize that I am made up of several persons and that the person that at the moment has the upper hand will inevitably give place to another. But which is the real one? All of them or none?
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It wasn’t until late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say, ‘I don’t know.’
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The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.
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The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
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If it is necessary sometimes to lie to others, it is always despicable to lie to oneself.
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Why should you think that beauty, which is the most precious thing in the world, lies like a stone on the beach for the careless passer-by to pick up idly?
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If a man hasn’t what’s necessary to make a woman love him, it’s his fault, not hers.
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Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.
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People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.
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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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