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W Somerset Maugham Inspirational Quotes (458)

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Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
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We are not the same persons this year as last nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.
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Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul.
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Often the best way to overcome desire is to satisfy it.
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Nothing in the world is permanent, and we’re foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we’re still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it.
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She loved three things — a joke, a glass of wine, and a handsome man.
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It might be that to surrender to happiness was to accept defeat, but it was a defeat better than many victories.
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Life wouldn’t be worth living if I worried over the future as well as the present. When things are at their worst I find something always happens.
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I now, weak, old, diseased, poor, dying, hold still my soul in my hands, and I regret nothing.
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I happen to think we’ve set our ideal on the wrong objects I happen to think that the greatest ideal man can set before himself is self-perfection.
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The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.
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Almost all the people who’ve had the most effect on me I seem to have met by chance, yet looking back it seems as though I couldn’t but have met them.
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Refecting on the high divorce rate in America as contrasted with England American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women only hope to find in their butlers
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There are many foolish people in the world and when a man in a rather high position puts on no frills, slaps them on the back, and tells them he'll do anything in the world for them, they are very likely to think him clever.
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What do we any of us have but our illusions? And what do we ask of others but that we be allowed to keep them?
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When you're eighteen your emotions are violent, but they're not durable.
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I prefer a loose woman to a selfish one and a wanton to a fool.
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There is nothing so terrible as the pursuit of art by those who have no talent.
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When he sacrifices himself man for a moment is greater than God, for how can God, infinite and omnipotent, sacrifice himself?
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Life is really very fantastic, and one has to have a peculiar sense of humour to see the fun of it. [Virtue]
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What was it in the human heart that made you despise a man because he loved you?
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You know, the Philistines have long since discarded the rack and stake as a means of suppressing the opinions they feared: they've discovered a much more deadly weapon of destruction -- the wisecrack.
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She alone had been blind to his merit. Why? Because he loved her and she did not love him. What was it in the human heart that made you despise a man because he loved you?
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Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.
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