You know, there are two good things in life, freedom of thought and freedom of action.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMUnfortunately sometimes one can’t do what one thinks is right without making someone else unhappy.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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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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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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I wish I could make you see how exciting the life of the spirit is and how rich in experience. It’s illimitable. It’s such a happy life. There’s only one thing like it, when you’re up in a plane by yourself, high, high, and only infinity surrounds you.
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Simplicity and naturalness are the truest marks of distinction.
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Don’t wait for experience to come to you; go out after experience. Experience is your material.
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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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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 I look back upon the girl I was I hate myself. But I never had a chance. I’m going to bring up my daughter so that she’s free and can stand on her own feet.
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To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.
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You learn more quickly under the guidance of experienced teachers.
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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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We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.
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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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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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There is nothing so degrading as the constant anxiety about one’s means of livelihood.
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