The essential element of love is a belief in its own eternity.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMThe most valuable thing I have learned from life is to regret nothing.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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If a man hasn’t what’s necessary to make a woman love him, it’s his fault, not hers.
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It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one’s dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.
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Now it is a funny thing about life. If you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it. If you utterly decline to make do with what you can get, then somehow or other, you are very likely to get what you want.
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They have no manners and are woefully unable to deal with any social predicament. Their idea of a celebration is to go to a public house and drink six beers. They are mean, malicious and envious . They are scum.
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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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Beauty is something wonderful and strange that the artist fashions out of the chaos of the world in the torment of his soul. And when he has made it, it is not given to all to know it.
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There is nothing so terrible as the pursuit of art by those who have no talent.
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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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Of all these the richest in beauty is the beautiful life. That is the perfect work of art.
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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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Men seek but one thing in life — their pleasure.
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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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In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.
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He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without 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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