Sometimes a man hits upon a place to which he mysteriously feels that he belongs.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMThe important thing was to love rather than to be loved.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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When I look back upon the girl I was I hate myself. But I never had a chance. I’m going to bring up my daughter so that she’s free and can stand on her own feet.
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The well dressed man is he whose clothes you never notice
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They have no manners and are woefully unable to deal with any social predicament. Their idea of a celebration is to go to a public house and drink six beers. They are mean, malicious and envious . They are scum.
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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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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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We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits.
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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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To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.
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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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If a man hasn’t what’s necessary to make a woman love him, it’s his fault, not hers.
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The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.
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I don’t think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.
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Unfortunately sometimes one can’t do what one thinks is right without making someone else unhappy.
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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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The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.
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