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.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMA mother only does her children harm if she makes them the only concern of her life.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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Dullness is the first requisite of a good husband.
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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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The most valuable thing I have learned from life is to regret nothing.
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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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It was such a beautiful day I decided to stay in bed.
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Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.
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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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You waste a lot of time going down blind alleys if you have no one to lead you.
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Any society that values wealth above freedom will lose its freedom, and will ultimately lose its wealth as well
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The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.
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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?
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You’re intoxicated by the boundless space.
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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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The mystic sees the ineffable, and the psychopathologist the unspeakable.
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In France you get freedom of action: you can do what you like and nobody bothers, but you must think like everybody else. In Germany you must do what everybody else does, but you may think as you choose. They’re both very good things.
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