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How can I be reasonable? To me our love was everything and you were my whole life. It is not very pleasant to realize that to you it was only an episode.

W. Somerset Maugham

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There is nothing so degrading as the constant anxiety about one’s means of livelihood.
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Now it is a funny thing about life. If you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it. If you utterly decline to make do with what you can get, then somehow or other, you are very likely to get what you want.
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If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too.
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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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It wasn’t until late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say, ‘I don’t know.’
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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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The most valuable thing I have learned from life is to regret nothing.
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It is bad enough to know the past; it would be intolerable to know the future.
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Any society that values wealth above freedom will lose its freedom, and will ultimately lose its wealth as well
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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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