You’re intoxicated by the boundless space.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMHe had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it.
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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You learn more quickly under the guidance of experienced teachers.
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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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It’s a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.
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You demand unselfishness from others, which is a preposterous claim that they should sacrifice their desires to yours. Why should they?
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In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.
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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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I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.
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One cannot find peace in work or in pleasure, in the world or in a convent, but only in one’s soul.
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There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
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Death doesn’t affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn’t concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.
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There’s always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.
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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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The prestige you acquire by being able to tell your friends that you know famous men proves only that you are yourself of small account.
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