When I look back upon the girl I was I hate myself. But I never had a chance. I’m going to bring up my daughter so that she’s free and can stand on her own feet.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMWhen 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.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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The tragedy of love is not death or separation. How long do you think it would have been before one or other of them ceased to care?
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The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.
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Of all the hokum with which this country [America] is riddled, the most odd is the common notion that it is free of class distinctions.
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The future will one day be the present and will seem as unimportant as the present does now.
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The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.
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The crown of literature is poetry. It is its end and aim. It is the sublimest activity of the human mind. It is the achievement of beauty and delicacy. The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes.
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Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger.
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If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too.
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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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Nothing in the world is permanent, and we’re foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we’re still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it.
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I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.
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Sometimes a man hits upon a place to which he mysteriously feels that he belongs.
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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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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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Life isn’t long enough for love and art.
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