The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMThe most valuable thing I have learned from life is to regret nothing.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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You can do anything in this world if you are prepared to take the consequences.
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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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All the words I use in my stories can be found in the dictionary-it’s just a matter of arranging them into the right sentences.
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The world is hard and cruel. We are here none knows why, and we go none knows whither.
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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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If you don’t change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?
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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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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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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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The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.
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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 isn’t long enough for love and art.
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People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.
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When you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right.
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One can be very much in love with a woman without wishing to spend the rest of one’s life with her.
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