The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMYou know, there are two good things in life, freedom of thought and freedom of action.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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I personally prefer freedom of thought. But in England you get neither: you’re ground down by convention. You can’t think as you like and you can’t act as you like. That’s because it’s a democratic nation. I expect America’s worse.
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Throw yourself into the hurly-burly of life. It doesn’t matter how many mistakes you make, what unhappiness you have to undergo. It is all your material …
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The essential element of love is a belief in its own eternity.
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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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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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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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He is not famous. It may be that he never will be. It may be that when his life at last comes to an end he will leave no more trace of his sojourn on earth than a stone thrown into a river leaves on the surface of the water.
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When you’re eighteen your emotions are violent, but they’re not durable.
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Life is so largely controlled by chance that its conduct can be but a perpetual improvisation.
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Art is a manifestation of emotion, and emotion speaks a language that all may understand.
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To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.
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Any society that values wealth above freedom will lose its freedom, and will ultimately lose its wealth as well
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When 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.
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It is dangerous to let the public behind the scenes. They are easily disillusioned and then they are angry with you, for it was the illusion they loved.
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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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