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W. Somerset Maugham
Age: 90 †
Born: 1874
Born: January 1
Died: 1965
Died: January 1
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The ideal has many names, and beauty is but one of them.
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It is bad enough to know the past it would be intolerable to know the future.
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It's always difficult to make conversation with a drunk, and there's no denying it, the sober are at a disadvantage with him.
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Her tears were partly tears of happiness, for she felt that the strangeness between them was gone. She loved him now with a new love because he had made her suffer.
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She plunged into a sea of platitudes, and with the powerful breast stroke of a channel swimmer made her confident way towards the white cliffs of the obvious.
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The trouble is that thinking looks like loafing. Who wants to pay people for daydreaming?
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A woman may be as wicked as she likes, but if she isn't pretty it won't do her much good.
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Never pause unless you have a reason for it, but when you pause, pause as long as you can.
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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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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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I do not believe they are right who say that the defects of famous men should be ignored. I think it is better that we should know them. Then, though we are conscious of having faults as glaring as theirs, we can believe that that is no hindrance to our achieving also something of their virtues.
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The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you.
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If a man hasn't what's necessary to make a woman love him, it's his fault, not hers.
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The passing moment is all we can be sure of it is only common sense to extract its utmost value from it.
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Marco Polo tells the tale of The Old Man in the Mountains and how he recruits new members to his Band of Assassins by means of drugs, beautiful women, lush gardens, and religious promises. The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.
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He exulted in the possession of himself once more he realized how much of the delight of the world he had lost when he was absorbed in that madness which they called love he had had enough of it he did not want to be in love anymore if love was that.
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It is not for nothing that artists have called their works the children of their brains and likened the pains of production to the pains of childbirth.
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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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It is cruel to discover one's mediocrity only when it is too late. It does not improve the temper.
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No action is in itself good or bad, but only such according to convention.
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