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.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMFailure make people bitter and cruel. Success improves the character of the man.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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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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The world is hard and cruel. We are here none knows why, and we go none knows whither.
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A bird in the hand was worth two in the bush, he told her, to which she retorted that a proverb was the last refuge of the mentally destitute.
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Love is what happens to men and women who don’t know each other.
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Art is a manifestation of emotion, and emotion speaks a language that all may understand.
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Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger.
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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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Often the best way to overcome desire is to satisfy it.
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If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.
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You demand unselfishness from others, which is a preposterous claim that they should sacrifice their desires to yours. Why should they?
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You’re intoxicated by the boundless space.
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You know, there are two good things in life, freedom of thought and freedom of action.
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Unfortunately sometimes one can’t do what one thinks is right without making someone else unhappy.
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They call beautiful a dress, a dog, a sermon; and when they are face to face with Beauty cannot recognise it.
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If nobody spoke unless he had something to say, the human race would very soon lose the use of speech.
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