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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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I made up my mind long ago that life was too short to do anything for myself that I could pay others to do for me.
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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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The beauty of the morning and the radiance of noon are good, but it would be a very silly person who drew the curtains and turned on the light in order to shut out the tranquillity of the evening. Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.
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The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.
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There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
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The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you.
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I don’t think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.
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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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To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.
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The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.
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But it may be that the way of life that he has chosen for himself and the peculiar strength and sweetness of his character may have an ever-growing influence over his fellow men so that, long after his death perhaps, it may be realized that there lived in this age a very remarkable creature.
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I wish I could make you see how much fuller the life I offer you is than anything you have a conception of.
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Of all the hokum with which this country [America] is riddled, the most odd is the common notion that it is free of class distinctions.
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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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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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There are times when I look over the various parts of my character with perplexity.
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