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Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.

W. Somerset Maugham

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The prestige you acquire by being able to tell your friends that you know famous men proves only that you are yourself of small account.
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Sometimes a man hits upon a place to which he mysteriously feels that he belongs.
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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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The future will one day be the present and will seem as unimportant as the present does now.
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To recognize it you must repeat the adventure of the artist. It is a melody that he sings to you, and to hear it again in your own heart you want knowledge and sensitiveness and imagination.
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The tragedy of love is not death or separation. How long do you think it would have been before one or other of them ceased to care?
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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’ll give you my opinion of the human race in a nutshell… their heart’s in the right place, but their head is a thoroughly inefficient organ.
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Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.
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Can Epigram Make None Tell Truth
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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Answer Face Life Meaning Men Most Plain Reason Unpalatable
Life is so largely controlled by chance that its conduct can be but a perpetual improvisation.
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Simplicity and naturalness are the truest marks of distinction.
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I want a girl because I want to bring her up so that she shan’t make the mistakes I’ve made.
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There is nothing so degrading as the constant anxiety about one’s means of livelihood.
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Anxiety Constant Decade Livelihood Mena Nothing
People talk of beauty lightly, and having no feeling for words, they use that one carelessly, so that it loses its force; and the thing it stands for, sharing its name with a hundred trivial objects, is deprived of dignity.
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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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