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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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When you are reconciled to the fact that each is for himself in the world you will ask less from your fellows. They will not disappoint you, and you will look upon them more charitably.
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As the cosmos are in place, so be it with your life.
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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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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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Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.
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Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger.
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