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The trouble is that thinking looks like loafing. Who wants to pay people for daydreaming?

W. Somerset Maugham

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I personally prefer freedom of thought. But in England you get neither: you’re ground down by convention. You can’t think as you like and you can’t act as you like. That’s because it’s a democratic nation. I expect America’s worse.
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As lovers, the difference between men and women is that women can love all day long, but men only at times.
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The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.
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Love is what happens to men and women who don’t know each other.
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Now it is a funny thing about life. If you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it. If you utterly decline to make do with what you can get, then somehow or other, you are very likely to get what you want.
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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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Tolerance is only another name for indifference.
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We must be very humble. We must see the beauty of quietness. We must go through life so inconspicuously that Fate does not notice us. And let us seek the love of simple, ignorant people. Their ignorance is better than all our knowledge.
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I don’t think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.
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How can I be reasonable? To me our love was everything and you were my whole life. It is not very pleasant to realize that to you it was only an episode.
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Of all these the richest in beauty is the beautiful life. That is the perfect work of art.
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A bird in the hand was worth two in the bush, he told her, to which she retorted that a proverb was the last refuge of the mentally destitute.
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Life is so largely controlled by chance that its conduct can be but a perpetual improvisation.
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A dictator must fool all the people all the time and there’s only one way to do that, he must also fool 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 mystic sees the ineffable, and the psychopathologist the unspeakable.
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