Now the answer … is plain, but it is so unpalatable that most men will not face it. There is no reason for life and life has no meaning.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMFailure make people bitter and cruel. Success improves the character of the man.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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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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The world is hard and cruel. We are here none knows why, and we go none knows whither.
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Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.
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The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.
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It is bad enough to know the past; it would be intolerable to know the future.
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The essential element of love is a belief in its own eternity.
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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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If a man hasn’t what’s necessary to make a woman love him, it’s his fault, not hers.
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You know, of course, that the Tasmanians, who never committed adultery, are now extinct.
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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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There is nothing so terrible as the pursuit of art by those who have no talent.
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He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it.
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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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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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A mother only does her children harm if she makes them the only concern of her life.
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