If a man hasn’t what’s necessary to make a woman love him, it’s his fault, not hers.
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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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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Unfortunately sometimes one can’t do what one thinks is right without making someone else unhappy.
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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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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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When you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right.
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You’re intoxicated by the boundless space.
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If you don’t change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?
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Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.
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The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.
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Love is what happens to men and women who don’t know each other.
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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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If it is necessary sometimes to lie to others, it is always despicable to lie to oneself.
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Often the best way to overcome desire is to satisfy it.
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You know, there are two good things in life, freedom of thought and freedom of action.
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Of all these the richest in beauty is the beautiful life. That is the perfect work of art.
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It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one’s dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.
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I’ll give you my opinion of the human race in a nutshell… their heart’s in the right place, but their head is a thoroughly inefficient organ.
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Now it is a funny thing about life. If you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it. If you utterly decline to make do with what you can get, then somehow or other, you are very likely to get what you want.
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Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
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Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.
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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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It wasn’t until late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say, ‘I don’t know.’
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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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The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.
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All the words I use in my stories can be found in the dictionary-it’s just a matter of arranging them into the right sentences.
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Oh, it’s always the same,’ she sighed, ‘if you want men to behave well to you, you must be beastly to them; if you treat them decently they make you suffer for it.
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