Sometimes a man hits upon a place to which he mysteriously feels that he belongs.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMThe most valuable thing I have learned from life is to regret nothing.
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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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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Now the answer … is plain, but it is so unpalatable that most men will not face it. There is no reason for life and life has no meaning.
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I don’t think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.
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You know, of course, that the Tasmanians, who never committed adultery, are now extinct.
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In France you get freedom of action: you can do what you like and nobody bothers, but you must think like everybody else. In Germany you must do what everybody else does, but you may think as you choose. They’re both very good things.
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When you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right.
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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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There is nothing so terrible as the pursuit of art by those who have no talent.
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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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I have an idea that the only thing which makes it possible to regard this world we live in without disgust is the beauty which now and then men create out of the chaos. The pictures they paint, the music they compose, the books they write, and the lives they lead.
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Life isn’t long enough for love and art.
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We do not write because we want to; we write because we have to.
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As the cosmos are in place, so be it with your life.
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Impropriety is the soul of wit.
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