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?
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMOften the best way to overcome desire is to satisfy it.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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The Almighty can hardly be such a fool as the churches make out.
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Only a mediocre person is always at his best.
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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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Impropriety is the soul of wit.
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Often the best way to overcome desire is to satisfy it.
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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 love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.
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We do not write because we want to; we write because we have to.
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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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I’ll give you my opinion of the human race in a nutshell… their heart’s in the right place, but their head is a thoroughly inefficient organ.
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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 waste a lot of time going down blind alleys if you have no one to lead you.
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For my part I cannot believe in a God who is angry with me because I do not believe in him. I cannot believe in a God who is less tolerant than I. I cannot believe in a God who has neither humour nor common sense.
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Life isn’t long enough for love and art.
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The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity.
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