The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMIf you don’t change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?
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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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Don’t wait for experience to come to you; go out after experience. Experience is your material.
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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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I always find it more difficult to say the things I mean than the things I don’t.
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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 can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.
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It was such a beautiful day I decided to stay in bed.
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The essential element of love is a belief in its own eternity.
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The secret to life is meaningless unless you discover it yourself.
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When you’re eighteen your emotions are violent, but they’re not durable.
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We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.
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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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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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Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger.
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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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