The secret to life is meaningless unless you discover it yourself.
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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Now the answer … is plain, but it is so unpalatable that most men will not face it. There is no reason for life and life has no meaning.
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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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if you’d ever had a grown-up daughter you’d know that by comparison a bucking steer is easy to manage. And as to knowing what goes on inside her – well, it’s much better to pretend you’re the simple, innocent old fool she almost certainly takes you for.
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Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
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An unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.
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You can do anything in this world if you are prepared to take the consequences.
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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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Tolerance is only another name for indifference.
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Sometimes a man hits upon a place to which he mysteriously feels that he belongs.
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You demand unselfishness from others, which is a preposterous claim that they should sacrifice their desires to yours. Why should they?
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Any society that values wealth above freedom will lose its freedom, and will ultimately lose its wealth as well
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The future will one day be the present and will seem as unimportant as the present does now.
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Art is a manifestation of emotion, and emotion speaks a language that all may understand.
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In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.
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He is not famous. It may be that he never will be. It may be that when his life at last comes to an end he will leave no more trace of his sojourn on earth than a stone thrown into a river leaves on the surface of the water.
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