Why should you think that beauty, which is the most precious thing in the world, lies like a stone on the beach for the careless passer-by to pick up idly?
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMOne can be very much in love with a woman without wishing to spend the rest of one’s life with her.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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You waste a lot of time going down blind alleys if you have no one to lead you.
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The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
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There is nothing so degrading as the constant anxiety about one’s means of livelihood.
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When you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right.
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There are two good things in life – freedom of thought and freedom of action.
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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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In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.
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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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Art is a manifestation of emotion, and emotion speaks a language that all may understand.
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Life wouldn’t be worth living if I worried over the future as well as the present. When things are at their worst I find something always happens.
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Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
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Often the best way to overcome desire is to satisfy it.
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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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We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits.
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When a woman loves you she’s not satisfied until she possesses your soul. Because she’s weak, she has a rage for domination, and nothing less will satisfy her.
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