The secret to life is meaningless unless you discover it yourself.
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 don’t change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?
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The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.
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The essential element of love is a belief in its own eternity.
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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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Sometimes a man hits upon a place to which he mysteriously feels that he belongs.
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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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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 always find it more difficult to say the things I mean than the things I don’t.
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Life wouldn’t be worth living if I worried over the future as well as the present. When things are at their worst I find something always happens.
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Love is what happens to men and women who don’t know each other.
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We who are of mature age seldom suspect how unmercifully and yet with what insight the very young judge us.
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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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What does democracy come down to? The persuasive power of slogans invented by wily self-seeking politicians.
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We do not write because we want to; we write because we have to.
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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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There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
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Only a mediocre person is always at his best.
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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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It is bad enough to know the past; it would be intolerable to know the future.
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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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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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I’d sooner be smashed into a mangled pulp by a bus when we cross the street than look forward to a life like yours.
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To recognize it you must repeat the adventure of the artist. It is a melody that he sings to you, and to hear it again in your own heart you want knowledge and sensitiveness and imagination.
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Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.
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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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