Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.
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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Often the best way to overcome desire is to satisfy it.
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The future will one day be the present and will seem as unimportant as the present does now.
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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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The essential element of love is a belief in its own eternity.
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I wish I could make you see how exciting the life of the spirit is and how rich in experience. It’s illimitable. It’s such a happy life. There’s only one thing like it, when you’re up in a plane by yourself, high, high, and only infinity surrounds you.
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One can be very much in love with a woman without wishing to spend the rest of one’s life with her.
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I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.
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Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.
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It’s no good trying to keep up old friendships. It’s painful for both sides. The fact is, one grows out of people, and the only thing is to face it.
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The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.
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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 only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you.
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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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She loved three things – a joke, a glass of wine, and a handsome man.
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