Men seek but one thing in life — their pleasure.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMOh, 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.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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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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You can do anything in this world if you are prepared to take the consequences.
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Art is a manifestation of emotion, and emotion speaks a language that all may understand.
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The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.
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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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The most valuable thing I have learned from life is to regret nothing.
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When you’re eighteen your emotions are violent, but they’re not durable.
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Unfortunately sometimes one can’t do what one thinks is right without making someone else unhappy.
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If you can tell stories, create characters, devise incidents, and have sincerity and passion, it doesn’t matter a damn how you write.
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The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity.
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Tolerance is only another name for indifference.
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Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.
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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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A bird in the hand was worth two in the bush, he told her, to which she retorted that a proverb was the last refuge of the mentally destitute.
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It was such a beautiful day I decided to stay in bed.
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