If a man hasn’t what’s necessary to make a woman love him, it’s his fault, not hers.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMIf you don’t change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?
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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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He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it.
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Of all the hokum with which this country [America] is riddled, the most odd is the common notion that it is free of class distinctions.
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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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Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.
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I don’t think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.
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When you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right.
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What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one’s faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one’s memories.
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In 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 secret to life is meaningless unless you discover it yourself.
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I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.
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Failure make people bitter and cruel. Success improves the character of the man.
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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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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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The mystic sees the ineffable, and the psychopathologist the unspeakable.
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