If it is necessary sometimes to lie to others, it is always despicable to lie to oneself.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMAs lovers, the difference between men and women is that women can love all day long, but men only at times.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
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The crown of literature is poetry. It is its end and aim. It is the sublimest activity of the human mind. It is the achievement of beauty and delicacy. The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes.
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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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When you’re eighteen your emotions are violent, but they’re not durable.
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If you don’t change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?
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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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Why should you think that beauty, which is the most precious thing in the world, lies like a stone on the beach for the careless passer-by to pick up idly?
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When you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right.
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I don’t think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.
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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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Most people are such fools that it is really no great compliment to say that someone is above the average.
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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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Tolerance is only another name for indifference.
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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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It’s a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.
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