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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.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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If a man hasn’t what’s necessary to make a woman love him, it’s his fault, not hers.
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Oh, it’s always the same,’ she sighed, ‘if you want men to behave well to you, you must be beastly to them; if you treat them decently they make you suffer for it.
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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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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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