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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 love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.
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It is dangerous to let the public behind the scenes. They are easily disillusioned and then they are angry with you, for it was the illusion they loved.
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The crown of literature is poetry. It is its end and aim. It is the sublimest activity of the human mind. It is the achievement of beauty and delicacy. The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes.
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There are two good things in life – freedom of thought and freedom of action.
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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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There is a sort of man who pays no attention to his good actions, but is tormented by his bad ones. This is the type that most often writes about himself.
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You waste a lot of time going down blind alleys if you have no one to lead you.
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The world is hard and cruel. We are here none knows why, and we go none knows whither.
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The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you.
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When a woman loves you she’s not satisfied until she possesses your soul. Because she’s weak, she has a rage for domination, and nothing less will satisfy her.
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My own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror.
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Life is so largely controlled by chance that its conduct can be but a perpetual improvisation.
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The beauty of the morning and the radiance of noon are good, but it would be a very silly person who drew the curtains and turned on the light in order to shut out the tranquillity of the evening. Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.
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Simplicity and naturalness are the truest marks of distinction.
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The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity.
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You learn more quickly under the guidance of experienced teachers.
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