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

W. Somerset Maugham

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Why should you think that beauty, which is the most precious thing in the world, lies like a stone on the beach for the careless passer-by to pick up idly?
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The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.
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Beautiful Essence Unity Variety
You can do anything in this world if you are prepared to take the consequences.
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Anything Consequences Prepare Take World
Life is so largely controlled by chance that its conduct can be but a perpetual improvisation.
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I want a girl because I want to bring her up so that she shan’t make the mistakes I’ve made.
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The Almighty can hardly be such a fool as the churches make out.
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Almighty Church Fool Harder Make Out
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
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
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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Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
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If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.
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Breakfast Country Eat Three Want Well
People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.
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Ask Criticism Only People Praise Want
But it may be that the way of life that he has chosen for himself and the peculiar strength and sweetness of his character may have an ever-growing influence over his fellow men so that, long after his death perhaps, it may be realized that there lived in this age a very remarkable creature.
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It was such a beautiful day I decided to stay in bed.
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The trouble is that thinking looks like loafing. Who wants to pay people for daydreaming?
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Life isn’t long enough for love and art.
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Art Enough Life Long Love

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