The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you.
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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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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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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She loved three things – a joke, a glass of wine, and a handsome man.
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If forty million people say a foolish thing it does not become a wise one.
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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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The world is hard and cruel. We are here none knows why, and we go none knows whither.
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Now the answer … is plain, but it is so unpalatable that most men will not face it. There is no reason for life and life has no meaning.
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Love is what happens to men and women who don’t know each other.
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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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A mother only does her children harm if she makes them the only concern of her life.
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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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You’re intoxicated by the boundless space.
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The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.
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Life isn’t long enough for love and art.
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