How can I be reasonable? To me our love was everything and you were my whole life. It is not very pleasant to realize that to you it was only an episode.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMIt’s a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
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If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.
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Why should you think that beauty, which is the most precious thing in the world, lies like a stone on the beach for the careless passer-by to pick up idly?
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I want a girl because I want to bring her up so that she shan’t make the mistakes I’ve made.
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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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Beauty is something wonderful and strange that the artist fashions out of the chaos of the world in the torment of his soul. And when he has made it, it is not given to all to know it.
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An unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.
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The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity.
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Most people are such fools that it is really no great compliment to say that someone is above the average.
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It’s no use crying over spilt milk, because all of the forces of the universe were bent on spilling it.
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I´m not going to bring a child into the world, and love her, and bring her up, just so that some man may want to sleep with her so much that he’s willing to provide her with board and lodging for the rest of her life.
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To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.
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You know, of course, that the Tasmanians, who never committed adultery, are now extinct.
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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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You waste a lot of time going down blind alleys if you have no one to lead you.
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