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.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMLove is what happens to men and women who don’t know each other.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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If forty million people say a foolish thing it does not become a wise one.
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You can do anything in this world if you are prepared to take the consequences.
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There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
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You will find as you grow older that the first thing needful to make the world a tolerable place to live in is to recognize the inevitable selfishness of humanity.
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There is nothing so terrible as the pursuit of art by those who have no talent.
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Tolerance is only another name for indifference.
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Art is a manifestation of emotion, and emotion speaks a language that all may understand.
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It is a nuisance that knowledge can only be acquired by hard work.
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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.
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People talk of beauty lightly, and having no feeling for words, they use that one carelessly, so that it loses its force; and the thing it stands for, sharing its name with a hundred trivial objects, is deprived of dignity.
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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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There is nothing so degrading as the constant anxiety about one’s means of livelihood.
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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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She loved three things – a joke, a glass of wine, and a handsome man.
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Throw yourself into the hurly-burly of life. It doesn’t matter how many mistakes you make, what unhappiness you have to undergo. It is all your material …
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