Dullness is the first requisite of a good husband.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMThe complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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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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The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.
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Nothing in the world is permanent, and we’re foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we’re still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it.
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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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Oh, it is dreadfully bitter to look at a woman whom you have loved with all your heart and soul, so that you felt you could not bear to let her out of your sight, and realize that you would not mind if you never saw her again. The tragedy of love is indifference.
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All the words I use in my stories can be found in the dictionary-it’s just a matter of arranging them into the right sentences.
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Sometimes a man hits upon a place to which he mysteriously feels that he belongs.
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We must be very humble. We must see the beauty of quietness. We must go through life so inconspicuously that Fate does not notice us. And let us seek the love of simple, ignorant people. Their ignorance is better than all our knowledge.
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The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.
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It is bad enough to know the past; it would be intolerable to know the future.
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Simplicity and naturalness are the truest marks of distinction.
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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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The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.
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Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.
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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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