I don’t think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMThere 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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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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Love is what happens to men and women who don’t know each other.
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As the cosmos are in place, so be it with your life.
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Often the best way to overcome desire is to satisfy it.
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Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.
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It is a nuisance that knowledge can only be acquired by hard work.
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A mother only does her children harm if she makes them the only concern of her life.
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The trouble is that thinking looks like loafing. Who wants to pay people for daydreaming?
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Dullness is the first requisite of a good husband.
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It is bad enough to know the past; it would be intolerable to know the future.
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If it is necessary sometimes to lie to others, it is always despicable to lie to oneself.
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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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You know, there are two good things in life, freedom of thought and freedom of action.
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When I look back upon the girl I was I hate myself. But I never had a chance. I’m going to bring up my daughter so that she’s free and can stand on her own feet.
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