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- When you have loved as she has loved, you grow old beautifully.
- W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965)
- Life isn't long enough for love and art.
- W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Moon and Sixpence
- At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
- W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965)
- It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.
- W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965)
- I don't think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.
- W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Moon and Sixpence
- A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.
- W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Moon and Sixpence
- Charm and nothing but charm at last grows a little tiresome. It's a relief then to deal with a man who isn't quite so delightful but a little more sincere.
- W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Painted Veil, 1925
- One cannot find peace in work or in pleasure, in the world or in a convent, but only in one's soul.
- W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Painted Veil, 1925
- As if a woman ever loved a man for his virtue.
- W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Painted Veil, 1925
- Tao. Some of us look for the Way in opium and some in God, some of us in whiskey and some in love. It is all the same Way and it leads nowhither.
- W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Painted Veil, 1925
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