I want a girl because I want to bring her up so that she shan’t make the mistakes I’ve made.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMThe ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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There are two good things in life – freedom of thought and freedom of action.
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When you’re eighteen your emotions are violent, but they’re not durable.
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It was such a beautiful day I decided to stay in bed.
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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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We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.
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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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Life isn’t long enough for love and art.
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She loved three things – a joke, a glass of wine, and a handsome man.
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You’re intoxicated by the boundless space.
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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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Sometimes a man hits upon a place to which he mysteriously feels that he belongs.
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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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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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I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.
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Art is a manifestation of emotion, and emotion speaks a language that all may understand.
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