He is not famous. It may be that he never will be. It may be that when his life at last comes to an end he will leave no more trace of his sojourn on earth than a stone thrown into a river leaves on the surface of the water.
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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If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too.
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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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You waste a lot of time going down blind alleys if you have no one to lead you.
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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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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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When you’re eighteen your emotions are violent, but they’re not durable.
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Art is a manifestation of emotion, and emotion speaks a language that all may understand.
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You know, of course, that the Tasmanians, who never committed adultery, are now extinct.
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People talk of beauty lightly, and having no feeling for words, they use that one carelessly, so that it loses its force; and the thing it stands for, sharing its name with a hundred trivial objects, is deprived of dignity.
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We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits.
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When I look back upon the girl I was I hate myself. But I never had a chance. I’m going to bring up my daughter so that she’s free and can stand on her own feet.
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There is nothing so degrading as the constant anxiety about one’s means of livelihood.
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It’s no use crying over spilt milk, because all of the forces of the universe were bent on spilling it.
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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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Men seek but one thing in life — their pleasure.
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