I want a girl because I want to bring her up so that she shan’t make the mistakes I’ve made.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMThe secret to life is meaningless unless you discover it yourself.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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I made up my mind long ago that life was too short to do anything for myself that I could pay others to do for me.
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The mystic sees the ineffable, and the psychopathologist the unspeakable.
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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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Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.
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There’s always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.
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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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The world is hard and cruel. We are here none knows why, and we go none knows whither.
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Most people are such fools that it is really no great compliment to say that someone is above the average.
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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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Words have weight, sound and appearance; it is only by considering these that you can write a sentence that is good to look at and good to listen to.
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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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To recognize it you must repeat the adventure of the artist. It is a melody that he sings to you, and to hear it again in your own heart you want knowledge and sensitiveness and imagination.
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In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.
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When I look back upon the girl I was I hate myself. But I never had a chance. I’m going to bring up my daughter so that she’s free and can stand on her own feet.
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Often the best way to overcome desire is to satisfy it.
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