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Often the best way to overcome desire is to satisfy it.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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In France you get freedom of action: you can do what you like and nobody bothers, but you must think like everybody else. In Germany you must do what everybody else does, but you may think as you choose. They’re both very good things.
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The tragedy of love is not death or separation. How long do you think it would have been before one or other of them ceased to care?
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Often the best way to overcome desire is to satisfy it.
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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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I am told that today rather more than 60 per cent of the men who go to university go on a Government grant. This is a new class that has entered upon the scene. It is the white-collar proletariat. They do not go to university to acquire culture but to get a job, and when they have got one, scamp it.
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How can I be reasonable? To me our love was everything and you were my whole life. It is not very pleasant to realize that to you it was only an episode.
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