One can be very much in love with a woman without wishing to spend the rest of one’s life with her.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMI´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.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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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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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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Why should you think that beauty, which is the most precious thing in the world, lies like a stone on the beach for the careless passer-by to pick up idly?
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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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Death doesn’t affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn’t concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.
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The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.
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From the earliest time the old have rubbed it into the young that they are wiser, and before the young had discovered what nonsense this was they were old too, and it profited them to carry on the imposture.
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He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it.
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Life is so largely controlled by chance that its conduct can be but a perpetual improvisation.
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We must be very humble. We must see the beauty of quietness. We must go through life so inconspicuously that Fate does not notice us. And let us seek the love of simple, ignorant people. Their ignorance is better than all our knowledge.
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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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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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It’s a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.
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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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Often the best way to overcome desire is to satisfy it.
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