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.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMThe essential element of love is a belief in its own eternity.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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She loved three things – a joke, a glass of wine, and a handsome man.
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To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give.
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You will find as you grow older that the first thing needful to make the world a tolerable place to live in is to recognize the inevitable selfishness of humanity.
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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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A mother only does her children harm if she makes them the only concern of her life.
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The beauty of the morning and the radiance of noon are good, but it would be a very silly person who drew the curtains and turned on the light in order to shut out the tranquillity of the evening. Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.
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The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.
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You know, of course, that the Tasmanians, who never committed adultery, are now extinct.
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When you’re eighteen your emotions are violent, but they’re not durable.
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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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What does democracy come down to? The persuasive power of slogans invented by wily self-seeking politicians.
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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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I wish I could make you see how much fuller the life I offer you is than anything you have a conception of.
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I have an idea that the only thing which makes it possible to regard this world we live in without disgust is the beauty which now and then men create out of the chaos. The pictures they paint, the music they compose, the books they write, and the lives they lead.
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The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity.
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