Men seek but one thing in life — their pleasure.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMIn 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.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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if you’d ever had a grown-up daughter you’d know that by comparison a bucking steer is easy to manage. And as to knowing what goes on inside her – well, it’s much better to pretend you’re the simple, innocent old fool she almost certainly takes you for.
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You can do anything in this world if you are prepared to take the consequences.
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I don’t think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.
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Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.
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I wish I could make you see how exciting the life of the spirit is and how rich in experience. It’s illimitable. It’s such a happy life. There’s only one thing like it, when you’re up in a plane by yourself, high, high, and only infinity surrounds you.
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It was such a beautiful day I decided to stay in bed.
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The world is hard and cruel. We are here none knows why, and we go none knows whither.
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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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Most people are such fools that it is really no great compliment to say that someone is above the average.
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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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Beauty is something wonderful and strange that the artist fashions out of the chaos of the world in the torment of his soul. And when he has made it, it is not given to all to know it.
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We do not write because we want to; we write because we have to.
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Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.
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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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Only a mediocre person is always at his best.
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