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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.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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A dictator must fool all the people all the time and there’s only one way to do that, he must also fool himself.
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The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity.
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Dullness is the first requisite of a good husband.
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The mystic sees the ineffable, and the psychopathologist the unspeakable.
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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.
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The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.
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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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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 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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It’s a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.
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Throw yourself into the hurly-burly of life. It doesn’t matter how many mistakes you make, what unhappiness you have to undergo. It is all your material …
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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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I personally prefer freedom of thought. But in England you get neither: you’re ground down by convention. You can’t think as you like and you can’t act as you like. That’s because it’s a democratic nation. I expect America’s worse.
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Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.
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