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

W. Somerset Maugham

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There is a sort of man who pays no attention to his good actions, but is tormented by his bad ones. This is the type that most often writes about himself.
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The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.
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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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I personally prefer freedom of thought. But in England you get neither: you’re ground down by convention. You can’t think as you like and you can’t act as you like. That’s because it’s a democratic nation. I expect America’s worse.
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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.
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As lovers, the difference between men and women is that women can love all day long, but men only at times.
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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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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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The mystic sees the ineffable, and the psychopathologist the unspeakable.
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The most valuable thing I have learned from life is to regret nothing.
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The future will one day be the present and will seem as unimportant as the present does now.
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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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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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When you’re eighteen your emotions are violent, but they’re not durable.
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The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.
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