We do not write because we want to; we write because we have to.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMWhen you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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You’re intoxicated by the boundless space.
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Any society that values wealth above freedom will lose its freedom, and will ultimately lose its wealth as well
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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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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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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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I´m not going to bring a child into the world, and love her, and bring her up, just so that some man may want to sleep with her so much that he’s willing to provide her with board and lodging for the rest of her life.
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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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In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.
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As the cosmos are in place, so be it with your life.
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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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The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.
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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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When you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right.
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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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Love is what happens to men and women who don’t know each other.
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