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If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits.
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You’re intoxicated by the boundless space.
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The essential element of love is a belief in its own eternity.
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It is bad enough to know the past; it would be intolerable to know the future.
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I´m not going to bring a child into the world, and love her, and bring her up, just so that some man may want to sleep with her so much that he’s willing to provide her with board and lodging for the rest of her life.
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One can be very much in love with a woman without wishing to spend the rest of one’s life with her.
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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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He is not famous. It may be that he never will be. It may be that when his life at last comes to an end he will leave no more trace of his sojourn on earth than a stone thrown into a river leaves on the surface of the water.
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The most valuable thing I have learned from life is to regret nothing.
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When you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right.
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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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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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I wish I could make you see how much fuller the life I offer you is than anything you have a conception of.
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Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
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