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.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMThe love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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The essential element of love is a belief in its own eternity.
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Don’t wait for experience to come to you; go out after experience. Experience is your material.
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Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.
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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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We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.
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The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you.
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Throw yourself into the hurly-burly of life. It doesn’t matter how many mistakes you make, what unhappiness you have to undergo. It is all your material …
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You’re intoxicated by the boundless space.
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If it is necessary sometimes to lie to others, it is always despicable to lie to oneself.
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Love is what happens to men and women who don’t know each other.
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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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Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.
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Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
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Oh, it is dreadfully bitter to look at a woman whom you have loved with all your heart and soul, so that you felt you could not bear to let her out of your sight, and realize that you would not mind if you never saw her again. The tragedy of love is indifference.
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The trouble is that thinking looks like loafing. Who wants to pay people for daydreaming?
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