You can do anything in this world if you are prepared to take the consequences.
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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Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.
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What does democracy come down to? The persuasive power of slogans invented by wily self-seeking politicians.
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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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When I look back upon the girl I was I hate myself. But I never had a chance. I’m going to bring up my daughter so that she’s free and can stand on her own feet.
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I am told that today rather more than 60 per cent of the men who go to university go on a Government grant. This is a new class that has entered upon the scene. It is the white-collar proletariat. They do not go to university to acquire culture but to get a job, and when they have got one, scamp it.
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It wasn’t until late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say, ‘I don’t know.’
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I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.
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One can be very much in love with a woman without wishing to spend the rest of one’s life with her.
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But it may be that the way of life that he has chosen for himself and the peculiar strength and sweetness of his character may have an ever-growing influence over his fellow men so that, long after his death perhaps, it may be realized that there lived in this age a very remarkable creature.
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It was such a beautiful day I decided to stay in bed.
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Most people are such fools that it is really no great compliment to say that someone is above the average.
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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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It is a nuisance that knowledge can only be acquired by hard work.
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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 only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you.
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