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 MAUGHAMThere are two good things in life – freedom of thought and freedom of action.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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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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Oh, it is dreadfully bitter to look at a woman whom you have loved with all your heart and soul, so that you felt you could not bear to let her out of your sight, and realize that you would not mind if you never saw her again. The tragedy of love is indifference.
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As lovers, the difference between men and women is that women can love all day long, but men only at times.
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When you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right.
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The essential element of love is a belief in its own eternity.
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In France you get freedom of action: you can do what you like and nobody bothers, but you must think like everybody else. In Germany you must do what everybody else does, but you may think as you choose. They’re both very good things.
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Life is so largely controlled by chance that its conduct can be but a perpetual improvisation.
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Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
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Art is a manifestation of emotion, and emotion speaks a language that all may understand.
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I have an idea that the only thing which makes it possible to regard this world we live in without disgust is the beauty which now and then men create out of the chaos. The pictures they paint, the music they compose, the books they write, and the lives they lead.
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Most people are such fools that it is really no great compliment to say that someone is above the average.
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We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits.
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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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Death doesn’t affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn’t concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.
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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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