Men seek but one thing in life — their pleasure.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMThere’s always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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Impropriety is the soul of wit.
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Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.
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What does democracy come down to? The persuasive power of slogans invented by wily self-seeking politicians.
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The mystic sees the ineffable, and the psychopathologist the unspeakable.
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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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There’s always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.
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Only a mediocre person is always at his best.
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Each one of us is alone in the world. He is shut in a tower of brass, and can communicate with his fellows only by signs, and the signs have no common value, so that their sense is vague and uncertain.
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Now it is a funny thing about life. If you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it. If you utterly decline to make do with what you can get, then somehow or other, you are very likely to get what you want.
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It’s no good trying to keep up old friendships. It’s painful for both sides. The fact is, one grows out of people, and the only thing is to face it.
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We do not write because we want to; we write because we have to.
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Nothing in the world is permanent, and we’re foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we’re still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it.
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If nobody spoke unless he had something to say, the human race would very soon lose the use of speech.
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The secret to life is meaningless unless you discover it yourself.
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If you can tell stories, create characters, devise incidents, and have sincerity and passion, it doesn’t matter a damn how you write.
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