The tragedy of love is not death or separation. How long do you think it would have been before one or other of them ceased to care?
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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If you can tell stories, create characters, devise incidents, and have sincerity and passion, it doesn’t matter a damn how you write.
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The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.
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If you don’t change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?
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The prestige you acquire by being able to tell your friends that you know famous men proves only that you are yourself of small account.
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Simplicity and naturalness are the truest marks of distinction.
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There’s always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.
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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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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.
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When you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right.
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You can do anything in this world if you are prepared to take the consequences.
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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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It is dangerous to let the public behind the scenes. They are easily disillusioned and then they are angry with you, for it was the illusion they loved.
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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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I wish I could make you see how exciting the life of the spirit is and how rich in experience. It’s illimitable. It’s such a happy life. There’s only one thing like it, when you’re up in a plane by yourself, high, high, and only infinity surrounds you.
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If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.
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