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.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMI don’t think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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You’re intoxicated by the boundless space.
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How can I be reasonable? To me our love was everything and you were my whole life. It is not very pleasant to realize that to you it was only an episode.
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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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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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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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The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.
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I always find it more difficult to say the things I mean than the things I don’t.
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You know, of course, that the Tasmanians, who never committed adultery, are now extinct.
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Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger.
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You learn more quickly under the guidance of experienced teachers.
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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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I made up my mind long ago that life was too short to do anything for myself that I could pay others to do for me.
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She loved three things – a joke, a glass of wine, and a handsome man.
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What do we any of us have but our illusions? And what do we ask of others but that we be allowed to keep them?
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The Almighty can hardly be such a fool as the churches make out.
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