How can I be reasonable? To me our love was everything and you were my whole life. It is not very pleasant to realize that to you it was only an episode.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMIf nobody spoke unless he had something to say, the human race would very soon lose the use of speech.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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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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We must be very humble. We must see the beauty of quietness. We must go through life so inconspicuously that Fate does not notice us. And let us seek the love of simple, ignorant people. Their ignorance is better than all our knowledge.
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The essential element of love is a belief in its own eternity.
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I’ll give you my opinion of the human race in a nutshell… their heart’s in the right place, but their head is a thoroughly inefficient organ.
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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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It was such a beautiful day I decided to stay in bed.
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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 call beautiful a dress, a dog, a sermon; and when they are face to face with Beauty cannot recognise it.
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It is bad enough to know the past; it would be intolerable to know the future.
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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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I wish I could make you see how exciting the life of the spirit is and how rich in experience. It’s illimitable. It’s such a happy life. There’s only one thing like it, when you’re up in a plane by yourself, high, high, and only infinity surrounds you.
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I want a girl because I want to bring her up so that she shan’t make the mistakes I’ve made.
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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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Life is so largely controlled by chance that its conduct can be but a perpetual improvisation.
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The Almighty can hardly be such a fool as the churches make out.
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