Love is what happens to men and women who don’t know each other.
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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If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.
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You know, there are two good things in life, freedom of thought and freedom of action.
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The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.
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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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You can do anything in this world if you are prepared to take the consequences.
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There is a sort of man who pays no attention to his good actions, but is tormented by his bad ones. This is the type that most often writes about himself.
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If nobody spoke unless he had something to say, the human race would very soon lose the use of speech.
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What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one’s faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one’s memories.
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The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you.
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Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.
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They have no manners and are woefully unable to deal with any social predicament. Their idea of a celebration is to go to a public house and drink six beers. They are mean, malicious and envious . They are scum.
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We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits.
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We do not write because we want to; we write because we have to.
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If forty million people say a foolish thing it does not become a wise one.
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Failure make people bitter and cruel. Success improves the character of the man.
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