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?
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMWhen 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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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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Often the best way to overcome desire is to satisfy it.
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As the cosmos are in place, so be it with your life.
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I don’t think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.
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An unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.
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The beauty of the morning and the radiance of noon are good, but it would be a very silly person who drew the curtains and turned on the light in order to shut out the tranquillity of the evening. Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.
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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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To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give.
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Impropriety is the soul of wit.
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Simplicity and naturalness are the truest marks of distinction.
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Of all these the richest in beauty is the beautiful life. That is the perfect work of art.
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What does democracy come down to? The persuasive power of slogans invented by wily self-seeking politicians.
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I´m not going to bring a child into the world, and love her, and bring her up, just so that some man may want to sleep with her so much that he’s willing to provide her with board and lodging for the rest of her life.
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They call beautiful a dress, a dog, a sermon; and when they are face to face with Beauty cannot recognise it.
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A dictator must fool all the people all the time and there’s only one way to do that, he must also fool himself.
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