I wish I could make you see how exciting the life of the spirit is and how rich in experience. It’s illimitable. It’s such a happy life. There’s only one thing like it, when you’re up in a plane by yourself, high, high, and only infinity surrounds you.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMShe loved three things – a joke, a glass of wine, and a handsome man.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.
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How can I be reasonable? To me our love was everything and you were my whole life. It is not very pleasant to realize that to you it was only an episode.
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Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
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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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To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.
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What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one’s faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one’s memories.
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The well dressed man is he whose clothes you never notice
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Men seek but one thing in life — their pleasure.
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People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.
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The most valuable thing I have learned from life is to regret nothing.
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When you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right.
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I always find it more difficult to say the things I mean than the things I don’t.
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You know, of course, that the Tasmanians, who never committed adultery, are now extinct.
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When you’re eighteen your emotions are violent, but they’re not durable.
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If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.
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