If you don’t change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMThe love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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We do not write because we want to; we write because we have to.
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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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Failure make people bitter and cruel. Success improves the character of the man.
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He is not famous. It may be that he never will be. It may be that when his life at last comes to an end he will leave no more trace of his sojourn on earth than a stone thrown into a river leaves on the surface of the water.
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Often the best way to overcome desire is to satisfy it.
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As the cosmos are in place, so be it with your life.
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Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.
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Men seek but one thing in life — their pleasure.
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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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Words have weight, sound and appearance; it is only by considering these that you can write a sentence that is good to look at and good to listen to.
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People talk of beauty lightly, and having no feeling for words, they use that one carelessly, so that it loses its force; and the thing it stands for, sharing its name with a hundred trivial objects, is deprived of dignity.
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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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Life is so largely controlled by chance that its conduct can be but a perpetual improvisation.
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A mother only does her children harm if she makes them the only concern of her life.
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Dullness is the first requisite of a good husband.
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