We seek pitifully to convey to others the treasures of our heart, but they have not the power to accept them, and so we go lonely, side by side but not together, unable to know our fellows and unknown by them.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMAs the cosmos are in place, so be it with your life.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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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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There are times when I look over the various parts of my character with perplexity.
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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 essential element of love is a belief in its own eternity.
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There’s always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.
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There is nothing so terrible as the pursuit of art by those who have no talent.
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If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.
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Only a mediocre person is always at his best.
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But it may be that the way of life that he has chosen for himself and the peculiar strength and sweetness of his character may have an ever-growing influence over his fellow men so that, long after his death perhaps, it may be realized that there lived in this age a very remarkable creature.
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I always find it more difficult to say the things I mean than the things I don’t.
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The secret to life is meaningless unless you discover it yourself.
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Impropriety is the soul of wit.
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You know, of course, that the Tasmanians, who never committed adultery, are now extinct.
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The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.
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We who are of mature age seldom suspect how unmercifully and yet with what insight the very young judge us.
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