You know, of course, that the Tasmanians, who never committed adultery, are now extinct.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMOh, 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.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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Life isn’t long enough for love and art.
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There’s always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.
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For my part I cannot believe in a God who is angry with me because I do not believe in him. I cannot believe in a God who is less tolerant than I. I cannot believe in a God who has neither humour nor common sense.
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You know, there are two good things in life, freedom of thought and freedom of action.
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Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger.
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The most valuable thing I have learned from life is to regret nothing.
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The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you.
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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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Failure make people bitter and cruel. Success improves the character of the man.
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Sometimes a man hits upon a place to which he mysteriously feels that he belongs.
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When you are reconciled to the fact that each is for himself in the world you will ask less from your fellows. They will not disappoint you, and you will look upon them more charitably.
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It was such a beautiful day I decided to stay in bed.
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The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.
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She loved three things – a joke, a glass of wine, and a handsome man.
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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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