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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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Tolerance is only another name for indifference.
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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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It’s no use crying over spilt milk, because all of the forces of the universe were bent on spilling it.
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An unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.
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Now the answer … is plain, but it is so unpalatable that most men will not face it. There is no reason for life and life has no meaning.
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Of all the hokum with which this country [America] is riddled, the most odd is the common notion that it is free of class distinctions.
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I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.
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There is nothing so degrading as the constant anxiety about one’s means of livelihood.
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One cannot find peace in work or in pleasure, in the world or in a convent, but only in one’s soul.
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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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I made up my mind long ago that life was too short to do anything for myself that I could pay others to do for me.
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It wasn’t until late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say, ‘I don’t know.’
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What does democracy come down to? The persuasive power of slogans invented by wily self-seeking politicians.
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Oh, it is dreadfully bitter to look at a woman whom you have loved with all your heart and soul, so that you felt you could not bear to let her out of your sight, and realize that you would not mind if you never saw her again. The tragedy of love is indifference.
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Nothing in the world is permanent, and we’re foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we’re still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it.
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You will find as you grow older that the first thing needful to make the world a tolerable place to live in is to recognize the inevitable selfishness of humanity.
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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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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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Each one of us is alone in the world. He is shut in a tower of brass, and can communicate with his fellows only by signs, and the signs have no common value, so that their sense is vague and uncertain.
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Beauty is something wonderful and strange that the artist fashions out of the chaos of the world in the torment of his soul. And when he has made it, it is not given to all to know it.
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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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Unfortunately sometimes one can’t do what one thinks is right without making someone else unhappy.
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If a man hasn’t what’s necessary to make a woman love him, it’s his fault, not hers.
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We must be very humble. We must see the beauty of quietness. We must go through life so inconspicuously that Fate does not notice us. And let us seek the love of simple, ignorant people. Their ignorance is better than all our knowledge.
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It is a nuisance that knowledge can only be acquired by hard work.
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There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
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The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.
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