The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMIt’s no use crying over spilt milk, because all of the forces of the universe were bent on spilling it.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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Life isn’t long enough for love and art.
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Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
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Men seek but one thing in life — their pleasure.
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There is nothing so degrading as the constant anxiety about one’s means of livelihood.
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The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.
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You’re intoxicated by the boundless space.
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When you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right.
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The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
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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.
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When you’re eighteen your emotions are violent, but they’re not durable.
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Any society that values wealth above freedom will lose its freedom, and will ultimately lose its wealth as well
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She loved three things – a joke, a glass of wine, and a handsome man.
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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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The essential element of love is a belief in its own eternity.
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Simplicity and naturalness are the truest marks of distinction.
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Sometimes a man hits upon a place to which he mysteriously feels that he belongs.
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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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There is nothing so terrible as the pursuit of art by those who have no talent.
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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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A dictator must fool all the people all the time and there’s only one way to do that, he must also fool himself.
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Dullness is the first requisite of a good husband.
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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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The most valuable thing I have learned from life is to regret nothing.
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When you are reconciled to the fact that each is for himself in the world you will ask less from your fellows. They will not disappoint you, and you will look upon them more charitably.
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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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I´m not going to bring a child into the world, and love her, and bring her up, just so that some man may want to sleep with her so much that he’s willing to provide her with board and lodging for the rest of her life.
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