The world is hard and cruel. We are here none knows why, and we go none knows whither.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMOh, 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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You’re intoxicated by the boundless space.
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The mystic sees the ineffable, and the psychopathologist the unspeakable.
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Why should you think that beauty, which is the most precious thing in the world, lies like a stone on the beach for the careless passer-by to pick up idly?
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The essential element of love is a belief in its own eternity.
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There is nothing so degrading as the constant anxiety about one’s means of livelihood.
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A bird in the hand was worth two in the bush, he told her, to which she retorted that a proverb was the last refuge of the mentally destitute.
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Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
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You can do anything in this world if you are prepared to take the consequences.
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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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You know, there are two good things in life, freedom of thought and freedom of action.
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Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.
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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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You know, of course, that the Tasmanians, who never committed adultery, are now extinct.
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Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.
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The most valuable thing I have learned from life is to regret nothing.
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