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There is nothing so degrading as the constant anxiety about one’s means of livelihood.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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If forty million people say a foolish thing it does not become a wise one.
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We must be very humble. We must see the beauty of quietness. We must go through life so inconspicuously that Fate does not notice us. And let us seek the love of simple, ignorant people. Their ignorance is better than all our knowledge.
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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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She loved three things – a joke, a glass of wine, and a handsome man.
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Impropriety is the soul of wit.
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Men seek but one thing in life — their pleasure.
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Don’t wait for experience to come to you; go out after experience. Experience is your material.
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As lovers, the difference between men and women is that women can love all day long, but men only at times.
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You learn more quickly under the guidance of experienced teachers.
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Love is what happens to men and women who don’t know each other.
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I always find it more difficult to say the things I mean than the things I don’t.
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Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger.
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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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The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.
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You know, of course, that the Tasmanians, who never committed adultery, are now extinct.
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We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.
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The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.
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The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
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We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits.
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Unfortunately sometimes one can’t do what one thinks is right without making someone else unhappy.
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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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You’re intoxicated by the boundless space.
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Often the best way to overcome desire is to satisfy it.
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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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Simplicity and naturalness are the truest marks of distinction.
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People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.
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