As lovers, the difference between men and women is that women can love all day long, but men only at times.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMThe world is hard and cruel. We are here none knows why, and we go none knows whither.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
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Each one of us is alone in the world. He is shut in a tower of brass, and can communicate with his fellows only by signs, and the signs have no common value, so that their sense is vague and uncertain.
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You know, of course, that the Tasmanians, who never committed adultery, are now extinct.
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The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity.
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I’d sooner be smashed into a mangled pulp by a bus when we cross the street than look forward to a life like yours.
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In France you get freedom of action: you can do what you like and nobody bothers, but you must think like everybody else. In Germany you must do what everybody else does, but you may think as you choose. They’re both very good things.
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It was such a beautiful day I decided to stay in bed.
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It is bad enough to know the past; it would be intolerable to know the future.
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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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Impropriety is the soul of wit.
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When you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right.
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Life wouldn’t be worth living if I worried over the future as well as the present. When things are at their worst I find something always happens.
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Failure make people bitter and cruel. Success improves the character of the man.
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For my part I cannot believe in a God who is angry with me because I do not believe in him. I cannot believe in a God who is less tolerant than I. I cannot believe in a God who has neither humour nor common sense.
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The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.
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