The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMEach one of us is alone in the world. He is shut in a tower of brass, and can communicate with his fellows only by signs, and the signs have no common value, so that their sense is vague and uncertain.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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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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Art is a manifestation of emotion, and emotion speaks a language that all may understand.
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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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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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A bird in the hand was worth two in the bush, he told her, to which she retorted that a proverb was the last refuge of the mentally destitute.
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If forty million people say a foolish thing it does not become a wise one.
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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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If it is necessary sometimes to lie to others, it is always despicable to lie to oneself.
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The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.
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Often the best way to overcome desire is to satisfy it.
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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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Oh, it’s always the same,’ she sighed, ‘if you want men to behave well to you, you must be beastly to them; if you treat them decently they make you suffer for it.
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Men seek but one thing in life — their pleasure.
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There is nothing so terrible as the pursuit of art by those who have no talent.
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Love is what happens to men and women who don’t know each other.
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