The trouble is that thinking looks like loafing. Who wants to pay people for daydreaming?
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMThe secret to life is meaningless unless you discover it yourself.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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One can be very much in love with a woman without wishing to spend the rest of one’s life with her.
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In France you get freedom of action: you can do what you like and nobody bothers, but you must think like everybody else. In Germany you must do what everybody else does, but you may think as you choose. They’re both very good things.
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Don’t wait for experience to come to you; go out after experience. Experience is your material.
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Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger.
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Sometimes a man hits upon a place to which he mysteriously feels that he belongs.
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The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.
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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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Life isn’t long enough for love and art.
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There are times when I look over the various parts of my character with perplexity.
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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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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 well dressed man is he whose clothes you never notice
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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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What do we any of us have but our illusions? And what do we ask of others but that we be allowed to keep them?
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I wish I could make you see how much fuller the life I offer you is than anything you have a conception of.
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