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The secret to life is meaningless unless you discover it yourself.
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There will always be one who loves, and one who lets himself be loved.
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When things are at their worst I find something always happens.
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Genius is talent provided with ideals.
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Love is a dirty trick played on us to achieve the continuation of the species.
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You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches them tolerance.
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Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.
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When you have loved as she has loved, you grow old beautifully.
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I have an idea that some men are born out of their due place. Accident has cast them amid certain surroundings, but they have always a nostalgia for a home they know not. They are strangers at their birthplace, and the leafy lanes they have known from childhood or the populous streets in which they have played, remain but a place of passage. They may spend their whole lives aliens among their kindred and remain aloof among the only scenes they have ever knows. Perhaps it is this sense of strangeness that sends men far and wide in the search for something permanent, to which they may attach themselves. Perhaps some deep-rooted atavism urges the wanderer back to lands which his ancestors left in the dim beginnings of history. Sometimes a man hits upon a place to which he mysteriously feels that he belongs. Here is the home he sought, and he will settle amid scenes that he has never seen before, among men he has never known, as though they were familiar to him from his birth. Here at last he finds rest.
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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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D'you call life a bad job? Never! We've had our ups and downs, we've had our struggles, we've always been poor, but it's been worth it, ay, worth it a hundred times I say when I look round at my children.
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The rain fell alike upon the just and upon the unjust, and for nothing was there a why and a wherefore.
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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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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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A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.
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I don't think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.
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Life isn't long enough for love and art.
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You know, of course, that the Tasmanians, who never committed adultery, are now extinct.
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There are three rules for writing the novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
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We do not write because we want to; we write because we have to.
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Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind.
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It was such a lovely day I thought it was a pity to get up.
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You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency.
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American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women only hope to find in their butlers.
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We have long passed the Victorian era, when asterisks were followed after a certain interval by a baby.
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