Why should you think that beauty, which is the most precious thing in the world, lies like a stone on the beach for the careless passer-by to pick up idly?
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 always find it more difficult to say the things I mean than the things I don’t.
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In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.
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There’s always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.
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As the cosmos are in place, so be it with your life.
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Life wouldn’t be worth living if I worried over the future as well as the present. When things are at their worst I find something always happens.
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Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.
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If nobody spoke unless he had something to say, the human race would very soon lose the use of speech.
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The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.
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For my part I cannot believe in a God who is angry with me because I do not believe in him. I cannot believe in a God who is less tolerant than I. I cannot believe in a God who has neither humour nor common sense.
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A bird in the hand was worth two in the bush, he told her, to which she retorted that a proverb was the last refuge of the mentally destitute.
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I recognize that I am made up of several persons and that the person that at the moment has the upper hand will inevitably give place to another. But which is the real one? All of them or none?
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Simplicity and naturalness are the truest marks of distinction.
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He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it.
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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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Life isn’t long enough for love and art.
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