I’d sooner be smashed into a mangled pulp by a bus when we cross the street than look forward to a life like yours.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMThe love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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There is a sort of man who pays no attention to his good actions, but is tormented by his bad ones. This is the type that most often writes about himself.
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I personally prefer freedom of thought. But in England you get neither: you’re ground down by convention. You can’t think as you like and you can’t act as you like. That’s because it’s a democratic nation. I expect America’s worse.
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It is a nuisance that knowledge can only be acquired by hard work.
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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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We do not write because we want to; we write because we have to.
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Men seek but one thing in life — their pleasure.
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When you are reconciled to the fact that each is for himself in the world you will ask less from your fellows. They will not disappoint you, and you will look upon them more charitably.
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One cannot find peace in work or in pleasure, in the world or in a convent, but only in one’s soul.
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You know, of course, that the Tasmanians, who never committed adultery, are now extinct.
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The secret to life is meaningless unless you discover it yourself.
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To recognize it you must repeat the adventure of the artist. It is a melody that he sings to you, and to hear it again in your own heart you want knowledge and sensitiveness and imagination.
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As the cosmos are in place, so be it with your life.
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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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The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity.
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Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger.
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