I wish I could make you see how much fuller the life I offer you is than anything you have a conception of.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMThe important thing was to love rather than to be loved.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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The essential element of love is a belief in its own eternity.
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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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If you don’t change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?
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What do we any of us have but our illusions? And what do we ask of others but that we be allowed to keep them?
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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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When you are reconciled to the fact that each is for himself in the world you will ask less from your fellows. They will not disappoint you, and you will look upon them more charitably.
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My own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror.
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The tragedy of love is not death or separation. How long do you think it would have been before one or other of them ceased to care?
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What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one’s faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one’s memories.
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In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.
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To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give.
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Throw yourself into the hurly-burly of life. It doesn’t matter how many mistakes you make, what unhappiness you have to undergo. It is all your material …
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Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.
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You can do anything in this world if you are prepared to take the consequences.
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As lovers, the difference between men and women is that women can love all day long, but men only at times.
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