You’re intoxicated by the boundless space.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMIt was such a beautiful day I decided to stay in bed.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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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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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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The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.
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Of all these the richest in beauty is the beautiful life. That is the perfect work of art.
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What does democracy come down to? The persuasive power of slogans invented by wily self-seeking politicians.
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I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.
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When you’re eighteen your emotions are violent, but they’re not durable.
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The trouble is that thinking looks like loafing. Who wants to pay people for daydreaming?
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Unfortunately sometimes one can’t do what one thinks is right without making someone else unhappy.
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Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.
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I made up my mind long ago that life was too short to do anything for myself that I could pay others to do for me.
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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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As lovers, the difference between men and women is that women can love all day long, but men only at times.
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Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.
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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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