As lovers, the difference between men and women is that women can love all day long, but men only at times.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMI personally prefer freedom of thought. But in England you get neither: you’re ground down by convention. You can’t think as you like and you can’t act as you like. That’s because it’s a democratic nation. I expect America’s worse.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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Often the best way to overcome desire is to satisfy it.
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The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity.
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There are two good things in life – freedom of thought and freedom of action.
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I don’t think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.
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The essential element of love is a belief in its own eternity.
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Death doesn’t affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn’t concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.
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Beauty is something wonderful and strange that the artist fashions out of the chaos of the world in the torment of his soul. And when he has made it, it is not given to all to know it.
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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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Art is a manifestation of emotion, and emotion speaks a language that all may understand.
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As the cosmos are in place, so be it with your life.
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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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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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We who are of mature age seldom suspect how unmercifully and yet with what insight the very young judge us.
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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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