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It is bad enough to know the past; it would be intolerable to know the future.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger.
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He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it.
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Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
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It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one’s dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.
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You demand unselfishness from others, which is a preposterous claim that they should sacrifice their desires to yours. Why should they?
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if you’d ever had a grown-up daughter you’d know that by comparison a bucking steer is easy to manage. And as to knowing what goes on inside her – well, it’s much better to pretend you’re the simple, innocent old fool she almost certainly takes you for.
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There are times when I look over the various parts of my character with perplexity.
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The mystic sees the ineffable, and the psychopathologist the unspeakable.
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If forty million people say a foolish thing it does not become a wise one.
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If nobody spoke unless he had something to say, the human race would very soon lose the use of speech.
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It is a nuisance that knowledge can only be acquired by hard work.
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There’s always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.
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I don’t think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.
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To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give.
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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.
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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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