Unfortunately sometimes one can’t do what one thinks is right without making someone else unhappy.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMWhen I look back upon the girl I was I hate myself. But I never had a chance. I’m going to bring up my daughter so that she’s free and can stand on her own feet.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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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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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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The secret to life is meaningless unless you discover it yourself.
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One cannot find peace in work or in pleasure, in the world or in a convent, but only in one’s soul.
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But it may be that the way of life that he has chosen for himself and the peculiar strength and sweetness of his character may have an ever-growing influence over his fellow men so that, long after his death perhaps, it may be realized that there lived in this age a very remarkable creature.
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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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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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Dullness is the first requisite of a good husband.
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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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How can I be reasonable? To me our love was everything and you were my whole life. It is not very pleasant to realize that to you it was only an episode.
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If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.
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There is nothing so degrading as the constant anxiety about one’s means of livelihood.
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The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.
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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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As the cosmos are in place, so be it with your life.
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