Sometimes a man hits upon a place to which he mysteriously feels that he belongs.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMWhen you’re eighteen your emotions are violent, but they’re not durable.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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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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You know, there are two good things in life, freedom of thought and freedom of action.
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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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I don’t think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.
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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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You know, of course, that the Tasmanians, who never committed adultery, are now extinct.
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Simplicity and naturalness are the truest marks of distinction.
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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.
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If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.
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Love is what happens to men and women who don’t know each other.
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It is a nuisance that knowledge can only be acquired by hard work.
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As the cosmos are in place, so be it with your life.
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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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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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The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.
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