I want a girl because I want to bring her up so that she shan’t make the mistakes I’ve made.
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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The future will one day be the present and will seem as unimportant as the present does now.
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There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
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The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
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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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You know, there are two good things in life, freedom of thought and freedom of action.
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There is nothing so terrible as the pursuit of art by those who have no talent.
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You learn more quickly under the guidance of experienced teachers.
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It was such a beautiful day I decided to stay in bed.
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The mystic sees the ineffable, and the psychopathologist the unspeakable.
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You demand unselfishness from others, which is a preposterous claim that they should sacrifice their desires to yours. Why should they?
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People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.
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Men seek but one thing in life — their pleasure.
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The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.
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From the earliest time the old have rubbed it into the young that they are wiser, and before the young had discovered what nonsense this was they were old too, and it profited them to carry on the imposture.
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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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