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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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The secret to life is meaningless unless you discover it yourself.
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I am told that today rather more than 60 per cent of the men who go to university go on a Government grant. This is a new class that has entered upon the scene. It is the white-collar proletariat. They do not go to university to acquire culture but to get a job, and when they have got one, scamp it.
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Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger.
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She loved three things – a joke, a glass of wine, and a handsome man.
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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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It’s no good trying to keep up old friendships. It’s painful for both sides. The fact is, one grows out of people, and the only thing is to face it.
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When you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right.
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You’re intoxicated by the boundless space.
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We seek pitifully to convey to others the treasures of our heart, but they have not the power to accept them, and so we go lonely, side by side but not together, unable to know our fellows and unknown by them.
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Accept Convey Fellow Heart Know Other Power Seek Together Treasure Unable
Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.
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Complete Five Make Money Other Sense Sixth Such
I recognize that I am made up of several persons and that the person that at the moment has the upper hand will inevitably give place to another. But which is the real one? All of them or none?
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There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
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Simplicity and naturalness are the truest marks of distinction.
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A mother only does her children harm if she makes them the only concern of her life.
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Children Concern Harm Life Make Mother
You know, there are two good things in life, freedom of thought and freedom of action.
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Action Freedom Good Know Life Thing
There are times when I look over the various parts of my character with perplexity.
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