A mother only does her children harm if she makes them the only concern of her life.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMThe essential element of love is a belief in its own eternity.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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Life is so largely controlled by chance that its conduct can be but a perpetual improvisation.
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I always find it more difficult to say the things I mean than the things I don’t.
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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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The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.
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We seek pitifully to convey to others the treasures of our heart, but they have not the power to accept them, and so we go lonely, side by side but not together, unable to know our fellows and unknown by them.
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If nobody spoke unless he had something to say, the human race would very soon lose the use of speech.
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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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Words have weight, sound and appearance; it is only by considering these that you can write a sentence that is good to look at and good to listen to.
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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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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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The beauty of the morning and the radiance of noon are good, but it would be a very silly person who drew the curtains and turned on the light in order to shut out the tranquillity of the evening. Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.
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They call beautiful a dress, a dog, a sermon; and when they are face to face with Beauty cannot recognise it.
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There are times when I look over the various parts of my character with perplexity.
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Often the best way to overcome desire is to satisfy it.
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Art is a manifestation of emotion, and emotion speaks a language that all may understand.
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