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I´m not going to bring a child into the world, and love her, and bring her up, just so that some man may want to sleep with her so much that he’s willing to provide her with board and lodging for the rest of her life.

W. Somerset Maugham

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The world is hard and cruel. We are here none knows why, and we go none knows whither.
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The secret to life is meaningless unless you discover it yourself.
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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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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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What does democracy come down to? The persuasive power of slogans invented by wily self-seeking politicians.
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I recognize that I am made up of several persons and that the person that at the moment has the upper hand will inevitably give place to another. But which is the real one? All of them or none?
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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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If nobody spoke unless he had something to say, the human race would very soon lose the use of speech.
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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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Only a mediocre person is always at his best.
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The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.
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Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.
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The crown of literature is poetry. It is its end and aim. It is the sublimest activity of the human mind. It is the achievement of beauty and delicacy. The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes.
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