Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMWhen 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.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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The essential element of love is a belief in its own eternity.
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We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.
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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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Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
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One cannot find peace in work or in pleasure, in the world or in a convent, but only in one’s soul.
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There are two good things in life – freedom of thought and freedom of action.
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There is nothing so terrible as the pursuit of art by those who have no talent.
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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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When you’re eighteen your emotions are violent, but they’re not durable.
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The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.
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All the words I use in my stories can be found in the dictionary-it’s just a matter of arranging them into the right sentences.
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A dictator must fool all the people all the time and there’s only one way to do that, he must also fool himself.
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As the cosmos are in place, so be it with your life.
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You will find as you grow older that the first thing needful to make the world a tolerable place to live in is to recognize the inevitable selfishness of humanity.
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