If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMOh, it is dreadfully bitter to look at a woman whom you have loved with all your heart and soul, so that you felt you could not bear to let her out of your sight, and realize that you would not mind if you never saw her again. The tragedy of love is indifference.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.
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Men seek but one thing in life — their pleasure.
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We seek pitifully to convey to others the treasures of our heart, but they have not the power to accept them, and so we go lonely, side by side but not together, unable to know our fellows and unknown by them.
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The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
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There’s always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.
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You’re intoxicated by the boundless space.
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The essential element of love is a belief in its own eternity.
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We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits.
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Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.
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We do not write because we want to; we write because we have to.
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I am told that today rather more than 60 per cent of the men who go to university go on a Government grant. This is a new class that has entered upon the scene. It is the white-collar proletariat. They do not go to university to acquire culture but to get a job, and when they have got one, scamp it.
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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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You waste a lot of time going down blind alleys if you have no one to lead you.
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Oh, it is dreadfully bitter to look at a woman whom you have loved with all your heart and soul, so that you felt you could not bear to let her out of your sight, and realize that you would not mind if you never saw her again. The tragedy of love is indifference.
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The Almighty can hardly be such a fool as the churches make out.
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