The most valuable thing I have learned from life is to regret nothing.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMNow it is a funny thing about life. If you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it. If you utterly decline to make do with what you can get, then somehow or other, you are very likely to get what you want.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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When you’re eighteen your emotions are violent, but they’re not durable.
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It’s no use crying over spilt milk, because all of the forces of the universe were bent on spilling it.
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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, there are two good things in life, freedom of thought and freedom of action.
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A mother only does her children harm if she makes them the only concern of her life.
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The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you.
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My own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror.
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Life isn’t long enough for love and art.
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The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.
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When a woman loves you she’s not satisfied until she possesses your soul. Because she’s weak, she has a rage for domination, and nothing less will satisfy her.
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People talk of beauty lightly, and having no feeling for words, they use that one carelessly, so that it loses its force; and the thing it stands for, sharing its name with a hundred trivial objects, is deprived of dignity.
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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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The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.
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Don’t wait for experience to come to you; go out after experience. Experience is your material.
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It was such a beautiful day I decided to stay in bed.
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