Death doesn’t affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn’t concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMIn Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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There’s always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.
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It was such a beautiful day I decided to stay in bed.
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Often the best way to overcome desire is to satisfy it.
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You know, there are two good things in life, freedom of thought and freedom of action.
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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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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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The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you.
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The secret to life is meaningless unless you discover it yourself.
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One cannot find peace in work or in pleasure, in the world or in a convent, but only in one’s soul.
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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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It wasn’t until late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say, ‘I don’t know.’
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Oh, it is dreadfully bitter to look at a woman whom you have loved with all your heart and soul, so that you felt you could not bear to let her out of your sight, and realize that you would not mind if you never saw her again. The tragedy of love is indifference.
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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?
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Throw yourself into the hurly-burly of life. It doesn’t matter how many mistakes you make, what unhappiness you have to undergo. It is all your material …
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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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