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Often the best way to overcome desire is to satisfy it.

W. Somerset Maugham

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If nobody spoke unless he had something to say, the human race would very soon lose the use of speech.
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Human Lose Nobody Race Something Soon Speech Spoke Unless Very
To recognize it you must repeat the adventure of the artist. It is a melody that he sings to you, and to hear it again in your own heart you want knowledge and sensitiveness and imagination.
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Adventure Again Artist Hear Heart Imagination Melody Recognize Repeat Sensitiveness
We who are of mature age seldom suspect how unmercifully and yet with what insight the very young judge us.
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Insight Judge Mature Seldom Suspect Ummercifully Very Yet Young
Love is what happens to men and women who don’t know each other.
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Each Happen Know Love Men Other Women
It wasn’t until late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say, ‘I don’t know.’
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Discover Easy Know Late Say Until
The Almighty can hardly be such a fool as the churches make out.
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Almighty Church Fool Harder Make Out
The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.
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Important Love Loved Rather Thing
He is not famous. It may be that he never will be. It may be that when his life at last comes to an end he will leave no more trace of his sojourn on earth than a stone thrown into a river leaves on the surface of the water.
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Come Earth End Famous Leave Life May More never River Sojourn Stone Surface Water Trace
When I look back upon the girl I was I hate myself. But I never had a chance. I’m going to bring up my daughter so that she’s free and can stand on her own feet.
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Chance Daughter Feel Girl Hate Look Own Stand Upon
It’s no use crying over spilt milk, because all of the forces of the universe were bent on spilling it.
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Bent Cry Force Milk Over Spill Spilt Universe Use
From the earliest time the old have rubbed it into the young that they are wiser, and before the young had discovered what nonsense this was they were old too, and it profited them to carry on the imposture.
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Before Discover Earliest Into Nonsense Rub Time Wiser Young
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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Get Her Life Love Much Nery One Rest Spend Wish Woman
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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Actual Assume Carry Course Mask People Perfection Person Seem Sometimes Such
A bird in the hand was worth two in the bush, he told her, to which she retorted that a proverb was the last refuge of the mentally destitute.
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Bird Bush Destitute Hand Last Mentality Proverb Refuge Restore Retorted Worth
The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.
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Cease Great Love Men Perish Tragedy
Don’t wait for experience to come to you; go out after experience. Experience is your material.
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