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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.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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I have an idea that the only thing which makes it possible to regard this world we live in without disgust is the beauty which now and then men create out of the chaos. The pictures they paint, the music they compose, the books they write, and the lives they lead.
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Beauty Compose Disgust Idea Live Make Men Only Picture Possible Regard Thing World
It is dangerous to let the public behind the scenes. They are easily disillusioned and then they are angry with you, for it was the illusion they loved.
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Angry Dangerous Easily Illusion Public Scene
You know, of course, that the Tasmanians, who never committed adultery, are now extinct.
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Adultery Committed Country Course Extinct Know People Person Tasmanian
If you can tell stories, create characters, devise incidents, and have sincerity and passion, it doesn’t matter a damn how you write.
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One cannot find peace in work or in pleasure, in the world or in a convent, but only in one’s soul.
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Convent Find One Only Peace Pleasure Soul World
if you’d ever had a grown-up daughter you’d know that by comparison a bucking steer is easy to manage. And as to knowing what goes on inside her – well, it’s much better to pretend you’re the simple, innocent old fool she almost certainly takes you for.
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Buck Comparision Daughter Easy Grown Inside Know Manage Pretend Simple Steer
A mother only does her children harm if she makes them the only concern of her life.
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Children Concern Harm Life Make Mother
Words have weight, sound and appearance; it is only by considering these that you can write a sentence that is good to look at and good to listen to.
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Appearance Consider Good Listen Look Only Sentence Sound Weight Word
Of all these the richest in beauty is the beautiful life. That is the perfect work of art.
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Often the best way to overcome desire is to satisfy it.
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The essential element of love is a belief in its own eternity.
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I wish I could make you see how exciting the life of the spirit is and how rich in experience. It’s illimitable. It’s such a happy life. There’s only one thing like it, when you’re up in a plane by yourself, high, high, and only infinity surrounds you.
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Excite Experience Happy High Illuminate Infinity One Plane Rich Spirit Surround
To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give.
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Anyone Bear Best Character Courage Failure Give Proof
Of all the hokum with which this country [America] is riddled, the most odd is the common notion that it is free of class distinctions.
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Clase Common Country Destruction Free Most Odd People Person Riddle
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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Domination Love Nothing Possess Rage Satisfied She Soul Woman

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