Sometimes a man hits upon a place to which he mysteriously feels that he belongs.
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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Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.
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In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.
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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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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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I am told that today rather more than 60 per cent of the men who go to university go on a Government grant. This is a new class that has entered upon the scene. It is the white-collar proletariat. They do not go to university to acquire culture but to get a job, and when they have got one, scamp it.
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If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.
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I don’t think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.
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The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.
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Simplicity and naturalness are the truest marks of distinction.
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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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We who are of mature age seldom suspect how unmercifully and yet with what insight the very young judge us.
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I personally prefer freedom of thought. But in England you get neither: you’re ground down by convention. You can’t think as you like and you can’t act as you like. That’s because it’s a democratic nation. I expect America’s worse.
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Of all these the richest in beauty is the beautiful life. That is the perfect work of art.
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The most valuable thing I have learned from life is to regret nothing.
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We do not write because we want to; we write because we have to.
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