What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.
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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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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.
W. Somerset Maugham in The Moon and Sixpence
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I daresay one profits more by the mistakes one makes off one's own bat than by doing the right thing on somebody's else advice.
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Perfection is a trifle dull. It is not the least of life's ironies that this, which we all aim at, is better not quite achieved.
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The artist produces for the liberation of his soul. It is his nature to create as it is the nature of water to run down the hill.
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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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Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.
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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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It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.
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