When you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right.
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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The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.
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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.
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Unfortunately sometimes one can’t do what one thinks is right without making someone else unhappy.
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Failure make people bitter and cruel. Success improves the character of the man.
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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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Of all the hokum with which this country [America] is riddled, the most odd is the common notion that it is free of class distinctions.
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As the cosmos are in place, so be it with your life.
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She loved three things – a joke, a glass of wine, and a handsome man.
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There is nothing so terrible as the pursuit of art by those who have no talent.
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From the earliest time the old have rubbed it into the young that they are wiser, and before the young had discovered what nonsense this was they were old too, and it profited them to carry on the imposture.
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There’s always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.
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Each one of us is alone in the world. He is shut in a tower of brass, and can communicate with his fellows only by signs, and the signs have no common value, so that their sense is vague and uncertain.
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Nothing in the world is permanent, and we’re foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we’re still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it.
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There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
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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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