As the cosmos are in place, so be it with your life.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMThe important thing was to love rather than to be loved.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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The beauty of the morning and the radiance of noon are good, but it would be a very silly person who drew the curtains and turned on the light in order to shut out the tranquillity of the evening. Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.
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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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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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The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.
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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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If nobody spoke unless he had something to say, the human race would very soon lose the use of speech.
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I made up my mind long ago that life was too short to do anything for myself that I could pay others to do for me.
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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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Men seek but one thing in life — their pleasure.
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In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.
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The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.
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You’re intoxicated by the boundless space.
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We seek pitifully to convey to others the treasures of our heart, but they have not the power to accept them, and so we go lonely, side by side but not together, unable to know our fellows and unknown by them.
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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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