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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.

W. Somerset Maugham

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The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you.
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Simplicity and naturalness are the truest marks of distinction.
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Most people are such fools that it is really no great compliment to say that someone is above the average.
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Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger.
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There is a sort of man who pays no attention to his good actions, but is tormented by his bad ones. This is the type that most often writes about himself.
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What do we any of us have but our illusions? And what do we ask of others but that we be allowed to keep them?
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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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People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.
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People talk of beauty lightly, and having no feeling for words, they use that one carelessly, so that it loses its force; and the thing it stands for, sharing its name with a hundred trivial objects, is deprived of dignity.
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Oh, it is dreadfully bitter to look at a woman whom you have loved with all your heart and soul, so that you felt you could not bear to let her out of your sight, and realize that you would not mind if you never saw her again. The tragedy of love is indifference.
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Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
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You’re intoxicated by the boundless space.
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When a woman loves you she’s not satisfied until she possesses your soul. Because she’s weak, she has a rage for domination, and nothing less will satisfy her.
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To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give.
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The trouble is that thinking looks like loafing. Who wants to pay people for daydreaming?
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It’s no use crying over spilt milk, because all of the forces of the universe were bent on spilling it.
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