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 MAUGHAMIt wasn’t until late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say, ‘I don’t know.’
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.
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The secret to life is meaningless unless you discover it yourself.
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The trouble is that thinking looks like loafing. Who wants to pay people for daydreaming?
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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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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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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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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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I want a girl because I want to bring her up so that she shan’t make the mistakes I’ve made.
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It is a nuisance that knowledge can only be acquired by hard work.
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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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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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If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.
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The essential element of love is a belief in its own eternity.
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You can do anything in this world if you are prepared to take the consequences.
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Of all the hokum with which this country [America] is riddled, the most odd is the common notion that it is free of class distinctions.
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