A mother only does her children harm if she makes them the only concern of her life.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMYou’re intoxicated by the boundless space.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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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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Any society that values wealth above freedom will lose its freedom, and will ultimately lose its wealth as well
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The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you.
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Beauty is something wonderful and strange that the artist fashions out of the chaos of the world in the torment of his soul. And when he has made it, it is not given to all to know it.
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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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Life wouldn’t be worth living if I worried over the future as well as the present. When things are at their worst I find something always happens.
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I´m not going to bring a child into the world, and love her, and bring her up, just so that some man may want to sleep with her so much that he’s willing to provide her with board and lodging for the rest of her life.
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The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.
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When you’re eighteen your emotions are violent, but they’re not durable.
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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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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 most valuable thing I have learned from life is to regret nothing.
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Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
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As the cosmos are in place, so be it with your life.
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You waste a lot of time going down blind alleys if you have no one to lead you.
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