The secret to life is meaningless unless you discover it yourself.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMLife 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.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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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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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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Words have weight, sound and appearance; it is only by considering these that you can write a sentence that is good to look at and good to listen to.
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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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The most valuable thing I have learned from life is to regret nothing.
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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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But it may be that the way of life that he has chosen for himself and the peculiar strength and sweetness of his character may have an ever-growing influence over his fellow men so that, long after his death perhaps, it may be realized that there lived in this age a very remarkable creature.
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A mother only does her children harm if she makes them the only concern of her life.
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The Almighty can hardly be such a fool as the churches make out.
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The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity.
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There is a sort of man who pays no attention to his good actions, but is tormented by his bad ones. This is the type that most often writes about himself.
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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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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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Sometimes a man hits upon a place to which he mysteriously feels that he belongs.
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In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.
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