The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMOne can be very much in love with a woman without wishing to spend the rest of one’s life with her.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you.
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I’d sooner be smashed into a mangled pulp by a bus when we cross the street than look forward to a life like yours.
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Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.
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They have no manners and are woefully unable to deal with any social predicament. Their idea of a celebration is to go to a public house and drink six beers. They are mean, malicious and envious . They are scum.
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She loved three things – a joke, a glass of wine, and a handsome man.
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There is nothing so degrading as the constant anxiety about one’s means of livelihood.
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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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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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Tolerance is only another name for indifference.
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There are times when I look over the various parts of my character with perplexity.
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Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
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I want a girl because I want to bring her up so that she shan’t make the mistakes I’ve made.
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It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one’s dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.
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To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give.
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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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