When you’re eighteen your emotions are violent, but they’re not durable.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMThey have no manners and are woefully unable to deal with any social predicament. Their idea of a celebration is to go to a public house and drink six beers. They are mean, malicious and envious . They are scum.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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I recognize that I am made up of several persons and that the person that at the moment has the upper hand will inevitably give place to another. But which is the real one? All of them or none?
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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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The most valuable thing I have learned from life is to regret nothing.
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Life is so largely controlled by chance that its conduct can be but a perpetual improvisation.
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We do not write because we want to; we write because we have to.
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I’ll give you my opinion of the human race in a nutshell… their heart’s in the right place, but their head is a thoroughly inefficient organ.
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The beauty of the morning and the radiance of noon are good, but it would be a very silly person who drew the curtains and turned on the light in order to shut out the tranquillity of the evening. Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.
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It’s no use crying over spilt milk, because all of the forces of the universe were bent on spilling it.
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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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Love is what happens to men and women who don’t know each other.
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Sometimes a man hits upon a place to which he mysteriously feels that he belongs.
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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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There is a sort of man who pays no attention to his good actions, but is tormented by his bad ones. This is the type that most often writes about himself.
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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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