There’s always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMThe beauty of the morning and the radiance of noon are good, but it would be a very silly person who drew the curtains and turned on the light in order to shut out the tranquillity of the evening. Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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Life is so largely controlled by chance that its conduct can be but a perpetual improvisation.
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If it is necessary sometimes to lie to others, it is always despicable to lie to oneself.
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It was such a beautiful day I decided to stay in bed.
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The trouble is that thinking looks like loafing. Who wants to pay people for daydreaming?
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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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I’ll give you my opinion of the human race in a nutshell… their heart’s in the right place, but their head is a thoroughly inefficient organ.
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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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Sometimes a man hits upon a place to which he mysteriously feels that he belongs.
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I´m not going to bring a child into the world, and love her, and bring her up, just so that some man may want to sleep with her so much that he’s willing to provide her with board and lodging for the rest of her life.
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Unfortunately sometimes one can’t do what one thinks is right without making someone else unhappy.
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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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There is a sort of man who pays no attention to his good actions, but is tormented by his bad ones. This is the type that most often writes about himself.
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The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.
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The essential element of love is a belief in its own eternity.
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If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.
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