The secret to life is meaningless unless you discover it yourself.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMWe 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.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
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Nothing in the world is permanent, and we’re foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we’re still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it.
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It was such a beautiful day I decided to stay in bed.
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Life is so largely controlled by chance that its conduct can be but a perpetual improvisation.
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The trouble is that thinking looks like loafing. Who wants to pay people for daydreaming?
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If a man hasn’t what’s necessary to make a woman love him, it’s his fault, not hers.
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I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.
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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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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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if you’d ever had a grown-up daughter you’d know that by comparison a bucking steer is easy to manage. And as to knowing what goes on inside her – well, it’s much better to pretend you’re the simple, innocent old fool she almost certainly takes you for.
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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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When you’re eighteen your emotions are violent, but they’re not durable.
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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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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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