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.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMAs lovers, the difference between men and women is that women can love all day long, but men only at times.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.
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The prestige you acquire by being able to tell your friends that you know famous men proves only that you are yourself of small account.
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Often the best way to overcome desire is to satisfy it.
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Unfortunately sometimes one can’t do what one thinks is right without making someone else unhappy.
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Failure make people bitter and cruel. Success improves the character of the man.
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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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It’s a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.
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The mystic sees the ineffable, and the psychopathologist the unspeakable.
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To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give.
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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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The trouble is that thinking looks like loafing. Who wants to pay people for daydreaming?
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Beauty is something wonderful and strange that the artist fashions out of the chaos of the world in the torment of his soul. And when he has made it, it is not given to all to know it.
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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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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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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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