Oh, it is dreadfully bitter to look at a woman whom you have loved with all your heart and soul, so that you felt you could not bear to let her out of your sight, and realize that you would not mind if you never saw her again. The tragedy of love is indifference.
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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As the cosmos are in place, so be it with your life.
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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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An unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.
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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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The most valuable thing I have learned from life is to regret nothing.
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How can I be reasonable? To me our love was everything and you were my whole life. It is not very pleasant to realize that to you it was only an episode.
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I made up my mind long ago that life was too short to do anything for myself that I could pay others to do for me.
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The trouble is that thinking looks like loafing. Who wants to pay people for daydreaming?
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Failure make people bitter and cruel. Success improves the character of the man.
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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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I always find it more difficult to say the things I mean than the things I don’t.
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You know, there are two good things in life, freedom of thought and freedom of action.
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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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Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger.
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Throw yourself into the hurly-burly of life. It doesn’t matter how many mistakes you make, what unhappiness you have to undergo. It is all your material …
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It’s no good trying to keep up old friendships. It’s painful for both sides. The fact is, one grows out of people, and the only thing is to face it.
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There are times when I look over the various parts of my character with perplexity.
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There are two good things in life – freedom of thought and freedom of action.
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When you are reconciled to the fact that each is for himself in the world you will ask less from your fellows. They will not disappoint you, and you will look upon them more charitably.
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Men seek but one thing in life — their pleasure.
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Of all these the richest in beauty is the beautiful life. That is the perfect work of art.
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The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity.
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My own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror.
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The essential element of love is a belief in its own eternity.
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The secret to life is meaningless unless you discover it yourself.
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Life is so largely controlled by chance that its conduct can be but a perpetual improvisation.
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