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.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMWhen 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.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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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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To recognize it you must repeat the adventure of the artist. It is a melody that he sings to you, and to hear it again in your own heart you want knowledge and sensitiveness and imagination.
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Art is a manifestation of emotion, and emotion speaks a language that all may understand.
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It wasn’t until late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say, ‘I don’t know.’
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The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.
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But it may be that the way of life that he has chosen for himself and the peculiar strength and sweetness of his character may have an ever-growing influence over his fellow men so that, long after his death perhaps, it may be realized that there lived in this age a very remarkable creature.
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You can do anything in this world if you are prepared to take the consequences.
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They call beautiful a dress, a dog, a sermon; and when they are face to face with Beauty cannot recognise it.
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What do we any of us have but our illusions? And what do we ask of others but that we be allowed to keep them?
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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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When I was young I was amazed at Plutarch’s statement that the elder Cato began at the age of eighty to learn Greek. I am amazed no longer. Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.
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The essential element of love is a belief in its own eternity.
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Often the best way to overcome desire is to satisfy it.
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Simplicity and naturalness are the truest marks of distinction.
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We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits.
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