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 MAUGHAMThe complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
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They call beautiful a dress, a dog, a sermon; and when they are face to face with Beauty cannot recognise it.
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Death doesn’t affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn’t concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.
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The mystic sees the ineffable, and the psychopathologist the unspeakable.
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If forty million people say a foolish thing it does not become a wise one.
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Tolerance is only another name for indifference.
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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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You waste a lot of time going down blind alleys if you have no one to lead you.
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In France you get freedom of action: you can do what you like and nobody bothers, but you must think like everybody else. In Germany you must do what everybody else does, but you may think as you choose. They’re both very good things.
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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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There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
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It is bad enough to know the past; it would be intolerable to know the future.
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Impropriety is the soul of wit.
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There is nothing so degrading as the constant anxiety about one’s means of livelihood.
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The Almighty can hardly be such a fool as the churches make out.
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