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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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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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Unfortunately sometimes one can’t do what one thinks is right without making someone else unhappy.
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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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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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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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If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too.
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The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
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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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You’re intoxicated by the boundless space.
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We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits.
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All the words I use in my stories can be found in the dictionary-it’s just a matter of arranging them into the right sentences.
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She loved three things – a joke, a glass of wine, and a handsome man.
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When you’re eighteen your emotions are violent, but they’re not durable.
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The trouble is that thinking looks like loafing. Who wants to pay people for daydreaming?
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I’d sooner be smashed into a mangled pulp by a bus when we cross the street than look forward to a life like yours.
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You know, of course, that the Tasmanians, who never committed adultery, are now extinct.
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