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W. Somerset Maugham
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W. Somerset Maugham
Age: 90 †
Born: 1874
Born: January 1
Died: 1965
Died: January 1
Army Scout
Literary Critic
Novelist
Physician Writer
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W. Somerset Maugham
Somerset Maugham
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But the only important thing in a book is the meaning it has for you it may have other and much more profound meanings for the critic, but at second-hand they can be of small service to you.
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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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When married people don't get on they can separate, but if they're not married it's impossible. It's a tie that only death can sever.
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Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.
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Loving-kindness is the better part of goodness.
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Reserve is an artificial quality that is developed in most of us but as the result of innumerable rebuffs.
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You know what the critics are. If you tell the truth they only say you're cynical and it does an author no good to get a reputation for cynicism.
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A dictator must fool all the people all the time and there's only one way to do that, he must also fool himself.
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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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The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.
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Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
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It requires the feminine temperament to repeat the same thing three times with unabated zest.
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A man ought to work. That's what he's here for. That's how he contributes to the welfare of the community.
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I prefer a loose woman to a selfish one and a wanton to a fool.
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A woman will always sacrifice herself if you give her the opportunity. It is her favourite form of self indulgence.
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Tolerance is only another name for indifference.
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There is no cruelty greater than a woman's to a man who loves her and whom she does not love she has no kindness then, no tolerance even, she has only an insane irritation.
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We find things beautiful because we recognize them and contrariwise we find things beautiful because their novelty surprises us.
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She could not admit but that he had remarkable qualities, sometimes she thought that there was even in him a strange and unattractive greatness it was curious then that she could not love him, but loved still a man whose worthlessness was now so clear to her.
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Only mediocre people are at the best all the time.
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