We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMIf you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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Don’t wait for experience to come to you; go out after experience. Experience is your material.
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It was such a beautiful day I decided to stay in bed.
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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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Simplicity and naturalness are the truest marks of distinction.
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If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.
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Nothing in the world is permanent, and we’re foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we’re still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it.
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There is nothing so terrible as the pursuit of art by those who have no talent.
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Sometimes a man hits upon a place to which he mysteriously feels that he belongs.
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We who are of mature age seldom suspect how unmercifully and yet with what insight the very young judge us.
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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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You’re intoxicated by the boundless space.
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I always find it more difficult to say the things I mean than the things I don’t.
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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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We do not write because we want to; we write because we have to.
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It was such a beautiful day I decided to stay in bed.
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