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

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger.
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Life wouldn’t be worth living if I worried over the future as well as the present. When things are at their worst I find something always happens.
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There is nothing so terrible as the pursuit of art by those who have no talent.
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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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There is nothing so degrading as the constant anxiety about one’s means of livelihood.
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I am told that today rather more than 60 per cent of the men who go to university go on a Government grant. This is a new class that has entered upon the scene. It is the white-collar proletariat. They do not go to university to acquire culture but to get a job, and when they have got one, scamp it.
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The secret to life is meaningless unless you discover it yourself.
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I don’t think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.
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Dullness is the first requisite of a good husband.
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Each one of us is alone in the world. He is shut in a tower of brass, and can communicate with his fellows only by signs, and the signs have no common value, so that their sense is vague and uncertain.
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You’re intoxicated by the boundless space.
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Death doesn’t affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn’t concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.
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The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.
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To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.
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We who are of mature age seldom suspect how unmercifully and yet with what insight the very young judge us.
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