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There are times when I look over the various parts of my character with perplexity.

W. Somerset Maugham

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If you don’t change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?
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Belief Change Forever Good Life New Will
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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Dictator Fool Himself Must One People Time Way
I recognize that I am made up of several persons and that the person that at the moment has the upper hand will inevitably give place to another. But which is the real one? All of them or none?
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All Another Hand Inevitably Made Moment None Person Place Recognize Several Upper
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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Age Character Chosen Creature Death Fellow Grow Influence Live Men Pecualr Perhaps Realize Remarkable Strength Sweetness
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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Angry Believe God Les Part Than Tolerant
When I was young I was amazed at Plutarch’s statement that the elder Cato began at the age of eighty to learn Greek. I am amazed no longer. Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.
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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
Life is so largely controlled by chance that its conduct can be but a perpetual improvisation.
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Chance Conduct Control Improvisation Largely Life Perpetual
You waste a lot of time going down blind alleys if you have no one to lead you.
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Alley Blind Down Lead Lot One Time Waste You
Most people are such fools that it is really no great compliment to say that someone is above the average.
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Above Average Compliment Fool Great Most People Really Someone
The secret to life is meaningless unless you discover it yourself.
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Discover Meaningless Secret Unless Yourself
The Almighty can hardly be such a fool as the churches make out.
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Almighty Church Fool Harder Make Out
Often the best way to overcome desire is to satisfy it.
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Best Desire Often Overcome Satisfy Way
My own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror.
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Anyone Belief Broadcast Hardly Horror Large Life Own Sexual Surprise World
All the words I use in my stories can be found in the dictionary-it’s just a matter of arranging them into the right sentences.
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Arrange Dictionary Found Matter Right Sentence Story Use Word
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

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