There are times when I look over the various parts of my character with perplexity.
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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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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What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one’s faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one’s memories.
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A mother only does her children harm if she makes them the only concern of her life.
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The essential element of love is a belief in its own eternity.
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The trouble is that thinking looks like loafing. Who wants to pay people for daydreaming?
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Each one of us is alone in the world. He is shut in a tower of brass, and can communicate with his fellows only by signs, and the signs have no common value, so that their sense is vague and uncertain.
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The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.
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An unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.
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For my part I cannot believe in a God who is angry with me because I do not believe in him. I cannot believe in a God who is less tolerant than I. I cannot believe in a God who has neither humour nor common sense.
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I wish I could make you see how exciting the life of the spirit is and how rich in experience. It’s illimitable. It’s such a happy life. There’s only one thing like it, when you’re up in a plane by yourself, high, high, and only infinity surrounds you.
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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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Don’t wait for experience to come to you; go out after experience. Experience is your material.
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Art is a manifestation of emotion, and emotion speaks a language that all may understand.
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Failure make people bitter and cruel. Success improves the character of the man.
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My own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror.
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