Simplicity and naturalness are the truest marks of distinction.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMArt is a manifestation of emotion, and emotion speaks a language that all may understand.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give.
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The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.
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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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If it is necessary sometimes to lie to others, it is always despicable to lie to oneself.
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if you’d ever had a grown-up daughter you’d know that by comparison a bucking steer is easy to manage. And as to knowing what goes on inside her – well, it’s much better to pretend you’re the simple, innocent old fool she almost certainly takes you for.
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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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When you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right.
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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.
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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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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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Men seek but one thing in life — their pleasure.
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What do we any of us have but our illusions? And what do we ask of others but that we be allowed to keep them?
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Often the best way to overcome desire is to satisfy it.
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When I look back upon the girl I was I hate myself. But I never had a chance. I’m going to bring up my daughter so that she’s free and can stand on her own feet.
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Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.
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