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Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
W. Somerset Maugham
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W. Somerset Maugham
Age: 90 †
Born: 1874
Born: January 1
Died: 1965
Died: January 1
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One can be very much in love with a woman without wishing to spend the rest of one's life with her.
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But what is criticism? Criticism is purely destructive anyone can destroy, but not everyone can build up.
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I am sick of this way of life. The weariness and sadness of old age make it intolerable. I have walked with death in hand, and death's own hand is warmer than my own. I don't wish to live any longer.
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A soul is a troublesome possession, and when man developed it he lost the Garden of Eden.
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Common-sense appears to be only another name for the thoughtlessness of the unthinking. It is made of the prejudices of childhood, the idiosyncrasies of individual character and the opinion of the newspapers.
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It wasn't until late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say, 'I don't know.'
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Has it occurred to you that transmigration is at once an explanation and a justification of the evil of the world? If the evils we suffer are the result of sins committed in our past lives, we can bear them with resignation and hope that if in this one we strive toward virtue out future lives will be less afflicted.
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One cannot find peace in work or in pleasure, in the world or in a convent, but only in one's soul.
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It does the heart good to look at you.
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There is no explanation for evil. It must be looked upon as a necessary part of the order of the universe. To ignore it is childish, to bewail it senseless.
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Conscience is the guardian in the individual of the rules which the community has evolved for its own preservation.
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What do we any of us have but our illusions? And what do we ask of others but that we be allowed to keep them?
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The author always loads his dice, but he must never let the reader see that he has done so, and by the manipulation of his plot, he can engage the reader's attention so that he does not perceive the violence that has been done to him.
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I don't know why it is that the religious never ascribe common sense to God.
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Genius is talent provided with ideals. Genius starves while talent wears purple and fine linen. The man of genius of today will infifty years' time be in most cases no more than a man of talent.
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He did not care upon what terms he satisfied his passion. He had even a mad, melodramatic idea to drug her.
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