Often the best way to overcome desire is to satisfy it.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMNow the answer … is plain, but it is so unpalatable that most men will not face it. There is no reason for life and life has no meaning.
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You know, of course, that the Tasmanians, who never committed adultery, are now extinct.
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You’re intoxicated by the boundless space.
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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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Tolerance is only another name for indifference.
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When a woman loves you she’s not satisfied until she possesses your soul. Because she’s weak, she has a rage for domination, and nothing less will satisfy her.
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If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.
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Life isn’t long enough for love and art.
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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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Throw yourself into the hurly-burly of life. It doesn’t matter how many mistakes you make, what unhappiness you have to undergo. It is all your material …
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We do not write because we want to; we write because we have to.
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The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
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If it is necessary sometimes to lie to others, it is always despicable to lie to oneself.
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I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.
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The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.
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Now the answer … is plain, but it is so unpalatable that most men will not face it. There is no reason for life and life has no meaning.
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