Each one of us is alone in the world. He is shut in a tower of brass, and can communicate with his fellows only by signs, and the signs have no common value, so that their sense is vague and uncertain.
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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You will find as you grow older that the first thing needful to make the world a tolerable place to live in is to recognize the inevitable selfishness of humanity.
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Of all these the richest in beauty is the beautiful life. That is the perfect work of art.
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Love is what happens to men and women who don’t know each other.
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The secret to life is meaningless unless you discover it yourself.
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There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
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As lovers, the difference between men and women is that women can love all day long, but men only at times.
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A mother only does her children harm if she makes them the only concern of her life.
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The tragedy of love is not death or separation. How long do you think it would have been before one or other of them ceased to care?
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From the earliest time the old have rubbed it into the young that they are wiser, and before the young had discovered what nonsense this was they were old too, and it profited them to carry on the imposture.
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People talk of beauty lightly, and having no feeling for words, they use that one carelessly, so that it loses its force; and the thing it stands for, sharing its name with a hundred trivial objects, is deprived of dignity.
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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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It is a nuisance that knowledge can only be acquired by hard work.
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Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.
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Life is so largely controlled by chance that its conduct can be but a perpetual improvisation.
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Words have weight, sound and appearance; it is only by considering these that you can write a sentence that is good to look at and good to listen to.
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