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.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMSometimes a man hits upon a place to which he mysteriously feels that he belongs.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.
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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 bad enough to know the past; it would be intolerable to know the future.
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I don’t think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.
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If you don’t change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?
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If it is necessary sometimes to lie to others, it is always despicable to lie to oneself.
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Life is so largely controlled by chance that its conduct can be but a perpetual improvisation.
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The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.
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If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too.
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Oh, it’s always the same,’ she sighed, ‘if you want men to behave well to you, you must be beastly to them; if you treat them decently they make you suffer for it.
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You learn more quickly under the guidance of experienced teachers.
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It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one’s dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.
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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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As the cosmos are in place, so be it with your life.
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All the words I use in my stories can be found in the dictionary-it’s just a matter of arranging them into the right sentences.
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