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When I look back upon the girl I was I hate myself. But I never had a chance. I’m going to bring up my daughter so that she’s free and can stand on her own feet.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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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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There is nothing so degrading as the constant anxiety about one’s means of livelihood.
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The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you.
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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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You know, of course, that the Tasmanians, who never committed adultery, are now extinct.
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What does democracy come down to? The persuasive power of slogans invented by wily self-seeking politicians.
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The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.
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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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I don’t think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.
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Each one of us is alone in the world. He is shut in a tower of brass, and can communicate with his fellows only by signs, and the signs have no common value, so that their sense is vague and uncertain.
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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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We who are of mature age seldom suspect how unmercifully and yet with what insight the very young judge us.
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One cannot find peace in work or in pleasure, in the world or in a convent, but only in one’s soul.
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It is a nuisance that knowledge can only be acquired by hard work.
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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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