One can be very much in love with a woman without wishing to spend the rest of one’s life with her.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMThe most valuable thing I have learned from life is to regret nothing.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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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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A bird in the hand was worth two in the bush, he told her, to which she retorted that a proverb was the last refuge of the mentally destitute.
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Life isn’t long enough for love and art.
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We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits.
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The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.
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Oh, it’s always the same,’ she sighed, ‘if you want men to behave well to you, you must be beastly to them; if you treat them decently they make you suffer for it.
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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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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.
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Life is so largely controlled by chance that its conduct can be but a perpetual improvisation.
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I made up my mind long ago that life was too short to do anything for myself that I could pay others to do for me.
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What do we any of us have but our illusions? And what do we ask of others but that we be allowed to keep them?
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You’re intoxicated by the boundless space.
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I personally prefer freedom of thought. But in England you get neither: you’re ground down by convention. You can’t think as you like and you can’t act as you like. That’s because it’s a democratic nation. I expect America’s worse.
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People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.
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I wish I could make you see how much fuller the life I offer you is than anything you have a conception of.
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