There’s always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMUnfortunately sometimes one can’t do what one thinks is right without making someone else unhappy.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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It was such a beautiful day I decided to stay in bed.
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Don’t wait for experience to come to you; go out after experience. Experience is your material.
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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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The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.
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Men seek but one thing in life — their pleasure.
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We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.
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To recognize it you must repeat the adventure of the artist. It is a melody that he sings to you, and to hear it again in your own heart you want knowledge and sensitiveness and imagination.
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Failure make people bitter and cruel. Success improves the character of the man.
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If it is necessary sometimes to lie to others, it is always despicable to lie to oneself.
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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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The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
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Oh, it is dreadfully bitter to look at a woman whom you have loved with all your heart and soul, so that you felt you could not bear to let her out of your sight, and realize that you would not mind if you never saw her again. The tragedy of love is indifference.
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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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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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Unfortunately sometimes one can’t do what one thinks is right without making someone else unhappy.
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