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What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one’s faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one’s memories.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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The Almighty can hardly be such a fool as the churches make out.
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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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Life wouldn’t be worth living if I worried over the future as well as the present. When things are at their worst I find something always happens.
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Unfortunately sometimes one can’t do what one thinks is right without making someone else unhappy.
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Dullness is the first requisite of a good husband.
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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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Only a mediocre person is always at his best.
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Men seek but one thing in life — their pleasure.
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They have no manners and are woefully unable to deal with any social predicament. Their idea of a celebration is to go to a public house and drink six beers. They are mean, malicious and envious . They are scum.
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To recognize it you must repeat the adventure of the artist. It is a melody that he sings to you, and to hear it again in your own heart you want knowledge and sensitiveness and imagination.
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