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.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMThe future will one day be the present and will seem as unimportant as the present does now.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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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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Impropriety is the soul of wit.
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In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.
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A mother only does her children harm if she makes them the only concern of her life.
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If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.
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To recognize it you must repeat the adventure of the artist. It is a melody that he sings to you, and to hear it again in your own heart you want knowledge and sensitiveness and imagination.
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If forty million people say a foolish thing it does not become a wise one.
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Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger.
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It is bad enough to know the past; it would be intolerable to know the future.
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It was such a beautiful day I decided to stay in bed.
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When I was young I was amazed at Plutarch’s statement that the elder Cato began at the age of eighty to learn Greek. I am amazed no longer. Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.
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People talk of beauty lightly, and having no feeling for words, they use that one carelessly, so that it loses its force; and the thing it stands for, sharing its name with a hundred trivial objects, is deprived of dignity.
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It wasn’t until late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say, ‘I don’t know.’
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The Almighty can hardly be such a fool as the churches make out.
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Love is what happens to men and women who don’t know each other.
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