The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMI’d sooner be smashed into a mangled pulp by a bus when we cross the street than look forward to a life like yours.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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Tolerance is only another name for indifference.
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I recognize that I am made up of several persons and that the person that at the moment has the upper hand will inevitably give place to another. But which is the real one? All of them or none?
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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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She loved three things – a joke, a glass of wine, and a handsome man.
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The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.
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One cannot find peace in work or in pleasure, in the world or in a convent, but only in one’s soul.
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The Almighty can hardly be such a fool as the churches make out.
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Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
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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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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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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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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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Only a mediocre person is always at his best.
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Most people are such fools that it is really no great compliment to say that someone is above the average.
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You can do anything in this world if you are prepared to take the consequences.
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