Now the answer … is plain, but it is so unpalatable that most men will not face it. There is no reason for life and life has no meaning.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMYou can do anything in this world if you are prepared to take the consequences.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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When I look back upon the girl I was I hate myself. But I never had a chance. I’m going to bring up my daughter so that she’s free and can stand on her own feet.
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The well dressed man is he whose clothes you never notice
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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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Dullness is the first requisite of a good husband.
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The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
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Men seek but one thing in life — their pleasure.
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Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger.
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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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The mystic sees the ineffable, and the psychopathologist the unspeakable.
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The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.
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Most people are such fools that it is really no great compliment to say that someone is above the average.
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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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Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
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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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As the cosmos are in place, so be it with your life.
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