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Men seek but one thing in life — their pleasure.

W. Somerset Maugham

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In France you get freedom of action: you can do what you like and nobody bothers, but you must think like everybody else. In Germany you must do what everybody else does, but you may think as you choose. They’re both very good things.
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I always find it more difficult to say the things I mean than the things I don’t.
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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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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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If you don’t change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?
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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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The tragedy of love is not death or separation. How long do you think it would have been before one or other of them ceased to care?
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The secret to life is meaningless unless you discover it yourself.
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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.
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The prestige you acquire by being able to tell your friends that you know famous men proves only that you are yourself of small account.
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If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.
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As the cosmos are in place, so be it with your life.
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The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.
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When you are reconciled to the fact that each is for himself in the world you will ask less from your fellows. They will not disappoint you, and you will look upon them more charitably.
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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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All the words I use in my stories can be found in the dictionary-it’s just a matter of arranging them into the right sentences.
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