When you’re eighteen your emotions are violent, but they’re not durable.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMHow 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.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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One can be very much in love with a woman without wishing to spend the rest of one’s life with her.
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One cannot find peace in work or in pleasure, in the world or in a convent, but only in one’s soul.
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The well dressed man is he whose clothes you never notice
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We who are of mature age seldom suspect how unmercifully and yet with what insight the very young judge us.
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The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.
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It is a nuisance that knowledge can only be acquired by hard work.
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If you don’t change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?
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You know, of course, that the Tasmanians, who never committed adultery, are now extinct.
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It is dangerous to let the public behind the scenes. They are easily disillusioned and then they are angry with you, for it was the illusion they loved.
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You learn more quickly under the guidance of experienced teachers.
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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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Impropriety is the soul of wit.
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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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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 it is necessary sometimes to lie to others, it is always despicable to lie to oneself.
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