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.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMSometimes a man hits upon a place to which he mysteriously feels that he belongs.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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The most valuable thing I have learned from life is to regret nothing.
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Oh, it’s always the same,’ she sighed, ‘if you want men to behave well to you, you must be beastly to them; if you treat them decently they make you suffer for it.
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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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There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
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One cannot find peace in work or in pleasure, in the world or in a convent, but only in one’s soul.
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The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.
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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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The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you.
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It was such a beautiful day I decided to stay in bed.
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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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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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If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.
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If a man hasn’t what’s necessary to make a woman love him, it’s his fault, not hers.
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Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.
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