Now the answer … is plain, but it is so unpalatable that most men will not face it. There is no reason for life and life has no meaning.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMThe tragedy of love is not death or separation. How long do you think it would have been before one or other of them ceased to care?
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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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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One can be very much in love with a woman without wishing to spend the rest of one’s life with her.
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What do we any of us have but our illusions? And what do we ask of others but that we be allowed to keep them?
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I’d sooner be smashed into a mangled pulp by a bus when we cross the street than look forward to a life like yours.
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One cannot find peace in work or in pleasure, in the world or in a convent, but only in one’s soul.
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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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Throw yourself into the hurly-burly of life. It doesn’t matter how many mistakes you make, what unhappiness you have to undergo. It is all your material …
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The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.
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Unfortunately sometimes one can’t do what one thinks is right without making someone else unhappy.
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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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You can do anything in this world if you are prepared to take the consequences.
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Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.
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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 know, there are two good things in life, freedom of thought and freedom of action.
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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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